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THE 
SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

The Art and Science of Building a Soul 

Authorized Text Book of the Church and 
Temple of Illumination. 



BY R. SWINBURNE CLYMER, M. D. 

Graduate College of Medicine and 
Surgery, Chicago, 1902. 

Author of "Diet, The Wau to Health", 
"Higher Race Development", "The 
Wau to Happiness", "Race Re- 
generation', etc, etc 



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Introductory 



The sole object of this book is the announcement of the 
coming of the Christ — to the individual. 

How will we know the Christ when he comes? 

If the Christ has been conceived, nurtured and resurrected 
within us then we will know. We have the absolute proofs con- 
stantly before our vision. We speak with authority. There is 
no necessity for guess-work. Theory has given way to knowl- 
edge and understanding. Whereas before we merely believed — 
saw as through a glass darkly, now we know. 

Just as man waking from a night of good normal sleep 
regains consciousness and knows that he is conscious, in like 
manner does the soul of man, when aroused from its sleep, in 
the temple of flesh and carnality, know that it has regained con- 
sciousness. The conscious Individuality — the personality trans- 
muted into the individuality — this is the Christ newly arisen. 

"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto, 
ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light shining in a dark 
place (the awakening soul in the human body), until the day 
dawns, and the day star arises in your hearts. 

"Knowing the prophecy came not in olden time by the will 
of man; but Holy (Illuminated) men of God spake as they 
were moved by the Holy Ghost (the soul baptized by the Fires 
from heaven)." 

Had Peter never spoken another word herein would men 
find indicated the "Way, the Truth, and the Life." When the 



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heart conceives that it is encased in a vault of error and through 
its longings arouses the mind to constructive action then is born 
the Christ child, and as this new born babe grows into manhood 
the "day star" commences to arise in the soul. 

The prophecy of the second coming is now being fulfilled: 
"the time is at hand," and "ye do well to take heed." 

We do not teach the return of Jesus in the flesh to set up a 
kingdom here on earth, nor to gather a certain few, erroneously 
believed to be pre-destined for heaven. We are proclaiming the 
advent of the Christos, the Individualization and Illumination 
of the Soul; the Conception of God, and the At-one-ment of 
man with the All Father. Not the advent of a self-righteous 
few, but of All men who will take heed and live the godly life. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and 
now is, when the dead (those living in sin and carnality) shall 
hear the voice of the son of God (the inner conscience) ; and 
they that hear shall live." 

This promise was not made to man who should live many 
centuries after the time of the prophecy, but to each and every 
human soul, commencing at the moment it was made (now) 
and to all in the coming time. It was a promise potent to all 
who would listen to the voice of God within themselves; who 
would obey the law, live the life and so reap the reward. 

The world has been foolishly looking forward to the com- 
ing of a Christ who would take upon himself their weakness, 
and crimes and who would have the authority to absolve their 
unworthy souls from the just penalty of their wrongdoings. 
Many so-called teachers, for personal reasons of their own, 
have proclaimed such a Messiah; despite the fact that it is 
written Jesus said: "Many shall come in my name saying, I 



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am Christ, and shall deceive many." Jesus did more, he ex- 
plained the signs preceding the coming of the Christos: 

"As the lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even 
unto the West, so shall also the coming of the son of man be." 

Interpreted this would indicate that as the lightning comes 
from one part of the earth and dispels the darkness in other 
parts, so does the awakened mind, the electrical or building 
forces of the mind, send the constructive energies through the 
body — or little world — and arouses the soul, bringing it to 
consciousness. 

Strange that prophets, priests and sages have given so little 
thought to the meaning of the several verses quoted. Words 
could hardly be plainer, though sheathed in the symbolism of 
heaven. 

"Lightning which cometh out of the East." The East has 
always been considered the Center of Wisdom. In all true 
Initiation men look to the East for wisdom — they travel East. 
Lightning is symbolic of dispelling the darkness, thus wisdom 
frees the mind from ignorance. Wisdom is the electrical, or 
constructive, vibration from heaven. Mind is the supreme 
creator of the universe. The thoughts, which for ages lived in 
the great souls of prophets, priests and sages, the desires and 
prayers of the Ancient Mystics, have penetrated into the inner- 
most recesses of the Western World. The Soul of the Christos 
— the Son of God — has spread its wings over the entire world 
and the hour of acceptance is at hand. 

"The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and 
they that hear shall live." 

Those who have wasted their lives seeking among the 
illusions and snares of the earth — those who are dead to the 



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saving wisdom; not having accepted the words of truth and 
freedom, and failing to build the soul on the Rock of Truth, 
shall yet live if they will hear the voice of Conscience and 
work in harmony with it. 

"Out of the Throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings 
and voices; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before 
the Throne, which were the spirits of God." 

Soul Science is the Baptism of Fire — it is the forerunner 
of the baptism of the Soul by the Holy Ghost. The second 
coming of the Christos — the attainment of Sonship and At-one- 
ment, was promised unto all men who would listen to the voice 
of the Conscience and so awaken the soul. The Soul itself is 
the Great White Throne in the Temple and it is God who will 
pour the seven spirits or gifts upon the Altar near the throne. 

Before Jesus, and in the age of Apollonius of Tyana, came 
John the Baptist. He came crying in the wilderness of error. 
"Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." 

He came preparing the people for the acceptance of the 
Truth. He said: "I am come baptising with water (mental 
awakening), but one mightier than I cometh, the latchets of 
whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose; he shall baptise you 
with fire (the Holy Ghost)." 

Water is the symbol of mind because it is never quiet, ever 
changing, — never the same. It is the cleanser, as also the 
awakener. We are told that John instructed and healed many. 
He was the mind, or mental healer. The world had waited 
long in a wilderness of darkness and error before it accepted the 
power and work of the mind, or mental healers — the temple 
cleansers. 

As John the Baptist looked forward to the greater demon- 



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stration of power and glory from above, so did other great 
prophets look forward to a greater manifestation of power. It 
did not appear as they had expected; but the advent of the son 
of man is here as announced by John. The material age, the 
period of false beliefs and delusions, the time of darkness 
represented by the word Egypt, is fast passing. Egypt has 
long been synonymous with darkness, unenlightenment ; yet out 
of the darkness comes light, as out of the flesh comes the Fire. 
"And the earth was without form and void, and darkness 
(ignorance) was upon the face of the water (mind), and God 
said: "Let there be light (understanding), and there was 
light." 

Egypt once was the repository of all the teachings and 
mysteries of the ancients. It was the Sublime Hierophant of 
the true Light. From it were handed down all the esoteric in- 
culcations of the philosophers and Wise men. Over the tombs 
of the Pharoahs, within the pyramids and obelisks still live as 
in letters of Fire the symbolism of the One True God, the great 
Unknown, but Knowable One, who was then, is now, and ever 
shall be, the Light of the world. 

Moses gave these Truths to the Jews. Jesus brought it 
once again from the crypts and secret places to both Jew and 
Gentile, and "as the lightning flashes from the East and shineth 
even unto the West," so have these Words of Wisdom of the 
Living God, the Osiris of the Egyptians, the God of Moses, 
and the Saviors of the world, broken the darkened clouds of 
materialism and dead faiths, and spread the life-giving Light 
deep into the hearts of those who are seeking to know. 

Now the day of the great Awakening is at hand. He that 
baptizes with Fire (the Holy Ghost) is here. The same Fire 



10 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

which found a voice and spoke to Moses in the Burning Bush, 
is awaiting awakening in each human soul. It is the Fire which 
lighted the darkness for the children of Israel after the Initiate- 
Kings had been deposed in Egypt and the usurpers had taken 
their place and Egypt truly had become the land of darkness. 
It is the Fire that descended in the "form of a dove from 
heaven," and the tongue of fire which sat upon the Apostles on 
the day of Pentacost. It is in the Soul, in the Illuminated Soul 
of man, and without this Illumination no man may enter the 
kingdom of heaven. 

"He Who Knows" has given the command to send forth 
the "saving truths" to the children of men that they all might 
be fully informed despite the inculcation of the debasing doc- 
trines of "justification by faith" and "vicarious atonement." 
The Baptism of the Fire is at hand. That which is of the soul 
must take the place of that which is of the mind only. The 
Soul is greater than the mind. It is the living, eternal life of 
the spirit. It is the Light of men; the Living Fire which came 
from God. We may accept and be saved (become Soul Con- 
scious), or we may refuse and be damned (enter the sleep of 
death). 

Throughout the Gospels and the writings of the apostles 
and prophets ; in all the inspired and authorized teachings, men 
are warned to awaken from their sleep and to develop the Soul — 
to bring it into the knowledge and oneness with the One God. 

It is written that Paul said: "To be carnally minded is 
death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." 

The mind builds the Soul, and a spiritualized mind builds 
unto life and peace. There is no mention here of mere faith. 



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The wickedly minded build unto death. The spiritually or 
exalted minded build unto life and eternity. 

"The God of peace sanctify you wholly (in whole) ; and I 
pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved 
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 

And again: "We are laborers (builders) together with 
God. Ye are God's husbandry. Ye are God's building. Ac- 
cording to the grace of God which is given unto me; as a wise 
master thereon, but let every man take heed how he buildeth 
thereon. 

"Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day 
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by Fire (the Soul 
manifesting through the body) ; and the Fire shall try every 
man's work what sort it is. 

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the 
spirit of God dwelleth in you? 

"If any man defile the temple (his body) of God, him 
shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy (whole, com- 
plete), which temple ye are." 

God will destroy the unholy. The Fire that is within 
you, being from God, therefore part of God, will burn up, — 
consume — all that is dross. All is dross that has not become 
purified. If the temple is filled with filth (disease), and with 
merchants (profiteers), and with money changers (thoughts and 
desires of self -profit), then the Fire will certainly destroy it 
and no amount of faith in a personality, however, sublime, can 
save it; for "God is a consuming fire." 

The work of the New Church is to establish in men the 
conception of the ever-living Christ, to help men comprehend 
that man is the temple of the living God, and that unless he 



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accepts this as a truth and builds accordingly, he builds unto 
destruction. 

The soul is the man. You are the manifestation of the 
soul "know ye not that ye are the temple of God," therefore you 
are the son of the living God. 

The effort of the New Church is to establish the Soul's 
relationship to God after the manner of Christ. 

The mind is the master builder. The foundation stones 
are Love, Truth, Virtue, Patience, Gentleness, Forbearance, 
Longsuffering and Constancy. 

Soul Science does not criticise nor antagonize the Bible. 
Its mission is to lift the veil from the hidden Faith and to in- 
terpret the mysteries so that all may understand. 

Few know the mysteries of the Soul — where and what it is. 

Soul Science opens the portals of understanding so that the 
soul may be awakened, that it may manifest through the earthly 
vehicle: "Every man's work shall be manifest; for the day 
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by Fire (the Soul)." 

Soul Science announces the advent of the Christie principle 
through the awakening of the mind of man and the building 
of his soul to manifest the Father. 

It is to teach the whole world the coming of the Christos — 
Individualized Soul — to every man; that he may be truly at-one 
with, and the son of God. 

It will "gather together the elect from the four winds of 
heaven, lift up the fallen, open the eyes of the blind, heal the 
broken-hearted, and inculcate the saving truths to the poor; 
setting at liberty them that are bruised." 

The time is now when the man of evil, those strong in the 
desires and longings of the flesh, shall say: "peace and safety, 



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then suddenly destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon 
the woman with child; and they shall not escape," for when the 
Light of salvation dawns upon the mind of men all evil shall 
be consumed and if the body and the soul are evil, these shall 
be consumed and be no more. 

Soul Science teaches all that can be openly revealed. Those 
who obey — who awaken the mind and develop the soul; — shall 
be baptized by Fire or the Holy Ghost. 

They shall become as of one mind, knowing good from evil. 
"The double-minded man is unstable in all his ways;" he knows 
not how to judge good from evil, false from true. He is floating 
here and flitting there. His forces are scattered. He compre- 
hends not the law of concentration. One says "here" and he 
follows; another says "there" and he obeys. His life is like the 
will o' the wisp; — now here, now there; lastly nowhere — such 
diffusion is death. 

"Seek ye the things of the Soul and the Holy Ghost shall 
descend upon thee, and thou shalt become At-one with the 
Father, the son of the Living God." 

December 12, 1921. 

R. Swinburne Clymer. 



Annunciation ~**~ Conception 

Every mortal earnestly and sincerely seeking the path lead- 
ing to immortality finds it essential to begin work upon a cer- 
tain, reliable foundation. He must first of all have a sensible 
idea of what he desires to accomplish; a sincere aspiration for 
absolute, tenable truth; together with a willingness to accept 
the truth and the law irrespective of conceptions previously har- 
bored, and likewise a readiness to sacrifice all preconceived 
ideas, substituting willingly the new and constructive doctrine. 

An uncountable multitude fail in the very beginning due 
to a lack of penetration. No sooner does the seeker commence 
to inquire into the greater knowledge when he is immediately 
surrounded by many and divers opinions and influences. First 
he attempts to follow one doctrine or philosophy, then another; 
until at last he finds himself far from the right path. This is 
mostly his own fault; he alone is guilty; and until he learns 
the first law, that of concentration — the acceptation of one sys- 
tem to the exclusion of all others — will he be certain to flounder 
around in darkness, misunderstanding, and discouragement. 

Many of those starting out with the most sincere longing 
for the truth and the greater life, because of ill-advised dab- 
bling in various systems of thought, become either disgusted or 
discouraged; returning to their former mode of living, and be- 
coming bitter doubters of all religion and philosophy; when 
as a fact, they might have found their own individuality within 
and peace of heart and mind, had they accepted one path, and 
one only. 

Desire, a restlessness, a longing, for the as yet unknown, 
does not begin to trouble the conscience until there is a way to 
attainment; a method to perfection; the possibility of obtaining 



16 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

knowledge. This is the Annunciation — the message of some- 
thing better coming. 

The former life, the old religious practices, worn to threads 
by its "worm of the dust" and "Predestination" doctrines, no 
longer satisfy the hunger and craving of the, as yet, sleeping 
soul — for unawakened souls can know desire and hunger even 
as man's physical being can be aware of these emotions in 
dreams. 

Life up to the present has been of the mind. Even the 
religious practices have been purely mental. The soul has had 
nothing to do with the thoughts, the desires, or the devotions. 
The soul is as yet asleep though it may be showing a restless- 
ness which cannot long be denied. 

The mind, however, is not the soul, neither is intellect to 
be considered as either spiritual or soulful. 

The mind is merely the forerunner of him who is to come. 
It is the John the Baptist crying in the wilderness and fore- 
shadowing an awakening; but this mind, now awakened, unless 
properly guided and guarded, is certain to starve the soul, or 
bring it unto destruction, because of its inherent inability to 
detect false from true, or if it is not sufficiently militant to 
arouse the soul from its lethargic state of inertia. 

The intellectual mind, though highly desirable as a world 
builder and inventor of things new, is seldom the spiritually 
understanding mind, but is often self-satisfied and vainglorious; 
and this to the degree of its intellectuality. 

It requires the enlightened, or guided mind, the obedient 
mind, to awaken the divine spark sleeping within, and to build 
of it a Conscious Soul. 

Lack of education, of great intellectual attainment, or 
brilliancy of mind, though these are always highly desirable, 
need not in the least deter one from building a Soul that is 
radiant and full of wisdom. 

The seeking, trusting, sincere soul will labor on towards 
Conscious Individuality — the attainment of Christhood — despite 



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all obstacles and every material condition; and every force at- 
tempting to retard its progress gives added zest to overcome and 
master all conditions and circumstances. 

Not for a moment would I be guilty of inculcating against 
intellectual development and attainment; I merely wish to in- 
dicate and assure those who ofttimes become discouraged, re- 
tarding much that is great within them, because of timidity due 
to their lack of education; that the mind and intellect are not 
all, that they are not the soul. 

To the embryonically great soul — the soul which is evolving 
Consciousward (Godward), obstacles, even those of undesirable 
parentage, or the densest and grossest of materiality, cannot 
long act as retarding forces. 

The mind must be the builder of the soul, just as the 
architect is the designer and builder of the palace, though it is 
regrettable that the educated mind does not always build a 
soul, or bring the soul to Conscious Individuality. We often 
see great, brilliant minds about us absolutely incapable of un- 
derstanding the possibility of Immortality. 

If the acquirement of truth and understanding of thingf 
spiritual depended entirely on intellect, then the world would 
long since have passed into the age of Light and continuous 
life. Master-minds who have lived and labored for physical 
benefits continually, have given little thought to things of the 
Soul. 

The inner wisdom comes only from the soul; though this 
wisdom once attained will then illuminate the intellect. 

The mind is the builder of the soul, but the soul must first 
be awakened to its possibilities. 

John the Baptist said: "I am come baptizing with water 
(water is the symbol of mind), but one mightier than I cometh, 
the latchets of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose; he shall 
baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire." 

According to the ancients and their doctrines, water always 
represented mind, while the Holy Ghost is the Fire descending 



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from heaven, and it is this Fire which illuminates the awaken- 
ed Soul. When the mind, John the Baptist, has been success- 
ful in awakening the Divine Spark, — the soul within us, and 
when the inner being accepts the truth and lives accordingly, 
then can the influx of the Holy Ghost take place and Conscious 
Individuality results. 

The enlightened mind becomes the great Soul builder. 

All necessary knowledge, all the essential mental acquire- 
ments are at the command of the awakened soul, the one having 
evolved toward Conscious Individuality — which is Immortality. 

Napoleon possessed one of the most remarkable minds of 
his age, but through selfishness he builded an egotistical soul 
which ultimately destroyed every possibility of success in the 
very hour of his triumph. The soul is built according to the 
desires of the mind. If these have become purified, enlighten- 
ed, exalted and are under the domain of wisdom, then so will 
be the soul. If selfishness, self-seeking, and various evil emo- 
tions govern, then will be created the shell of a soul, unbaptized 
by the Fire of God, and this ultimately brings about its own 
destruction. This is God's, the Creator's own Law, it cannot 
be set aside, cannot be repudiated. It is the law of Compensa- 
tion. 

The mind of Oscar Wilde's was undoubtedly one of the 
most brilliant of his day, but it was so at the expense of the 
body and soul, its brilliancy being resultant of the consuming 
of the soul itself through the medium of degrading sex practices 
— practices which always destroy. 

The first glimpse of truth, the first intutional conception 
that there exists a something — a science, a religion, a wisdom 
unknown to theologians, is the Annunciation from God on high 
to our individual selves — it is the Conception of the Christ 
within us. 

When this understanding first dawned on the Neophyte 
Mary, she wondered within herself: "How can this thing be?" 

The Angel — her spiritual monitor, answered her: "The 



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Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest 
shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which 
shall be born of thee shall be called the Son (Incarnation) of 
God." 

This re-birth must take place in every human being de- 
siring to attain Conscious Individuality, — the inheritance of 
Immortality. The annunciation must reach us direct; within 
us must be born the thought of our kinship with the Creator; 
the realization must come upon us that the soul within must 
be awakened, must be brought into conscious life, and that the 
Fire from heaven must descend upon us, thus giving conscious 
birth to the living, eternal, Conscious Soul. 

We then have conceived the word. It is made flesh, is 
become holy, because it is born of the highest, the Holy Ghost, 
it is baptized with the Fire from heaven. 

The appellation fire used in the Scripture has been the 
cause of much conjecture among teachers of Christian lore as 
to its true meaning, and has been interpreted to signify many 
different things. 

At the time of Jesus (believed by many to have actually 
been Apollonius of Tyana), when the self-righteous Pharisees 
— the intellectual giants of the age — were masters of the re- 
ligious rites and ceremonies, few had any comprehension what- 
ever of the word "soul." Few men had the knowledge as to 
whether man possessed a soul, and a still less number could 
comprehend what it was and where it was domiciled. Countless 
teachers of the present, though inculcating many beautiful 
truths, have little understanding of the soul, and certainly are 
incompetent to instruct in Soul-development; thus, it is a con- 
tinuous repetition of dogmas and creeds, with no practical in- 
structions for the development of Conscious Individuality — the 
one essential to immortality. 

God is the Creator; from him does man receive a spark of 
the Divine Fire; this Spark is dormant within man, seldom 
brought into manifestation. This Spark is the embryonic soul; 



20 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

it must be awakened, fanned into life, brought into Conscious 
manifestation, — this is Salvation; not by faith, not through 
the forgiveness of sins, but by continued labor, by works, by 
the knowledge which is divine. 

Man is then baptized in Christ — by the Holy Ghost with 
Fire; and "arises and walks in newness of life," for he has 
been drinking of the waters of eternity. 

What is soul? It is the Fire which dwells within man 
brought into Consciousness. 

Where is the soul? It is within man, "in the secret place," 
and no man may know unless he travels the Path, awakens the 
Fire into a Flame, and when the Fire burns, traces it to its 
source, and then listens to Its voice as did Moses to the voice 
in the "burning bush." 

Have you a soul? This you cannot truthfully answer 
until you so live and practice as to bring it into manifestation. 

In these three questions we find the foundation for the 
building of soul. When we wish to build a house we must first 
know what a house is, what it looks like, and what material 
enters into the building and in what manner this material is 
to be employed. 

Undoubtedly we should feel extremely foolish were some 
one to ask us if we owned a house and be forced to confess we 
did not know. Moreover, we would be considered very stupid 
if we claimed to own a house but were unable to describe it or 
state where it was located. 

Man continually strives to understand all things material, 
but without shame or regret, allows himself to continue stupidly 
blind spiritually, despite the fact that spirituality is the most 
essential part of life. 

Spirituality — Conscious Individuality — is life, it is life 
eternal, but the materialist continues to grope in his darkness, 
unmindful of this great truth. 

John tried to teach that the "Word was made flesh and 
dwelt among us," thereby indicating that the Soul entered man. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 21 

and dwelt there, but that few were aware of its presence; this 
ignorance is as marked today as then. The Word is with man, 
but man living in darkness, fails to comprehend; thus he is 
like unto the pauper, who, begging his bread, is unaware thai 
unnameable wealth is at his disposal. 

The Word which John had in mind was the Soul, for he 
that was to come was to baptize with Fire, and Fire is the Soul. 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God." If the Soul is from God, and 
a part of God, then it must be God. Man, overshadowed by 
countless centuries of ignorance and self-seeking, is totally 
ignorant that within his vault — himself — is deposited untold 
wealth — a part of God. 

"All things were made by Him; and without Him (God) 
was not anything made." 

"In Him was life, and the life (here meant the soul) was 
the Light (Fire) of man." 

The soul is "the light that shineth in darkness; and the 
darkness (the flesh) comprehends it not." But the soul, once 
awakened and baptized by the Fire, is "the Light that shineth 
in darkness, and the darkness, the flesh is then illuminated by it. 

"There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 
The same came for a witness, to bear witness (testimony) of 
the Light; that all men through him might believe." 

John represents mind; he is the annunciator. The mind, 
becoming dissatisfied with the ordinary, with the say-so of 
others, begins to seek, to grope in darkness; it is the awakener 
of the conscience; a reaching forth for something greater. This 
reaching forth is the baptism of water, and if the search con- 
tinues then will come he who baptizes by Fire, or the Holy 
Ghost. 

The mind is the witness of the soul; with the mind we 
believe, through the reasoning of the mind we come to faith. 
The consciousness of the mind to the ideal is the witness of 



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the soul. The mind conveys the fact that we have a soul, this 
is the annunciation. 

John, or mind, was not the Light (Christ or Soul), but was 
sent to bear witness of that Light which follows in the process 
of Soul development. This coming to Conscious Individuality 
is "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into 
the world;" but the multitudes allow the light to burn dim and 
to finally die out. 

Every sane man born into the world is endowed with an 
embryonic soul and this soul may become a light that shall light 
the way. 

The mind is the witness, testifying whether he is in dark- 
ness or following the Light. 

"He (the soul) that cometh after me (the mind) is pre- 
ferred before me (mind); he (the soul) was (in eternity) be- 
fore me." 

In this sphere of action, in this mundane plane, soul comes 
after mind, but should be preferred before mind, for souls were 
ages before minds. Souls existed before they entered into the 
flesh where is the dwelling place of mind. 

"No man (the flesh) hath seen God at any time; the only 
begotten Son (man reborn and become a Conscious Individual- 
ity), which is in the bosom of the Father (the awakened and 
Fire-baptized Soul in man), he hath declared him." All men 
shall come to know and see God, through the Fire becoming 
visible and declaring Him, who, accepting the offer will live in 
such manner as to bring the soul into manifestation, so be- 
coming baptized by the Fire — the Holy Ghost. 



The Confession 

Confession signifies acknowledgement. 

To confess is to admit the truth of a statement, a propo- 
sition, or a dictum. To confess having committed an error of 
thought, word or deed, is to admit it. 

Confession may be made to our own conscience, to the All 
Father in prayer or meditation, or to a second party. However, 
before we can acknowledge to either God or a second party, we 
must first have awakened to the error and have admitted it, or 
confessed to the conscience. 

The confession voiced by Jesus was an acknowledgement 
of his conversion and immersion in the Spirit of Fire — of his 
Oneness, through having become Consciously Individualized 
with God. 

Confession, or the acknowledgement of having been in 
error, is but one phase of confession. It is merely the beginning. 
True confession is to see one's mistake and then correct it. It 
is in fact, the discontinuance of the wrong and a commencement 
of the right. 

Multitudes, uncountable, err in believing that confession 
is demanded of them in any other way except in constructively 
thinking and right living. 

To confess that we believe Jesus had become the Christ, the 
Son of God, is not altogether necessary. Jesus did not command 
a verbal acknowledgement of his Christhood from his disciples; 
for, did He not ask: "Whom do ye say that I am?" He desired 
the confession in the heart, the turning away from false doctrines 
to an adherence to duty and development of the soul, so bringing 
it into Conscious Individuality. Jesus clearly taught them: 
"Whosoever will come after (follow) me, let him deny himself, 
and take up his cross and follow me." 



24 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

This does not demand, as so many erroneously believe, that 
we must cast aside all desirable things in life, become narrow 
and bitter, with a holier-than-thou expression, and a contempt 
for all that is beautiful and pleasure-giving. It demands of us 
that we cleanse the heart, that we pass through the bitter strug- 
gle of freeing the mind from pre-judgment of others; that we 
cast out, or crucify all the passions, and that we think and live 
cleanly and purely. This crucifixion is the cross we must carry; 
crucifixion always presupposing the Cross as part of the labor. 

When we would accept the Christhood, which is no less 
and no more than becoming Consciously Individualized, the 
lustfulness and desires and pleasures of the earth or the flesh 
which tear down or destroy, must be thrust from us. This is 
the true denial of the self. The psychology of the mind is such 
that we almost always believe those things most desirable which 
bring pain and sorrow. Self must be cast out. Jesus had no 
intention of inculcating the idea or the belief, that we should 
hate the self or the world. Self is so strong within us and it 
is so hard for us to distinguish between a rightful demand of 
the self and the selfishness which is destructive, that we must 
continually "watch and pray" until we have found the key that 
frees us from error. 

Self-absorption is but another form of selfishness, parallel 
and equal with it. A self-centered person ofttimes excuses his 
selfishness in the juggling of appellations. We may become so 
engrossed with our own plans, ideas, labors or desires as to be 
utterly selfish. Many selfish people are pure minded and 
liberal in many ways, yet lose sight of the requirements of those 
about them; entirely forgetful of their duties to others, or of the 
fact that no man is sufficient unto himself, and that his life is 
interwoven with those about him. 

Self is one of the greatest tempters to wrong, and must be 
constantly guarded against. It is the most subtle, the most 
alluring devil of the ages, always offering the glittering cup, 



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drawing us farther and farther away from the lasting, the real 
and the immortal. 

Seldom is the self as it appears, nor as we think it is, nor 
as we would like it to be. We have surrounded ourselves with 
a beautiful mental picture, not as we really are, but as we have 
idealized ourselves to be. 

It is a picture touched up with master strokes. All the 
blemishes, all physical and mental sores are carefully covered, 
while the true likeness is barely traceable. We go on blindly 
worshipping this beautiful idea we call self, the while we are 
building a soul whose image would startle us with shame and 
disgust could our eyes really be opened for a moment so that 
we might see ourselves as we truly appear to those who know. 

All this must be changed if we would build the soul. We 
must be willing to face the truth. This is the cross. This it 
is to deny ourselves. Standing face to face with the ego itself 
we must confess our errors, our weaknesses, and our petty sel- 
fishness. We must be willing to accept the analysis and verdict 
of those who can read us as we read a book, then set about to 
build anew, and with the reconstruction bring the soul to Con- 
scious Individuality. 

"Let him deny himself." Jesus knew, as did all great 
masters before him, and as have all since his time, that this 
would prove to be the cross, the stumbling-block. No man ever 
denied self (selfish instincts and desires) without crucifixion. 
The most difficult task before us is to analyze the intricate 
problems of self and its desires and learn what these really are, 
not what they appear to be. This is the one thing necessary. 
It is the demand of the soul itself. It is essential to the Uni- 
versal Christ; that Holy Spirit which has ever existed and must 
continue to exist as long as one human being remains who has 
not attained Conscious Individuality. To follow the Soul of 
the universe, termed Christ by the Christian nations, we must 
learn to know ourselves, the innermost being, and to reach an 
understanding of its needs; thence walking in truthfulness and 



26 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

righteousness, ever ready to learn the truth and the right, irres- 
pective of the wounds resulting. 

The soul of man is not responsible for the errors and mis- 
deeds of man, though upon it falls the penalty. The soul is 
plastic, it receives the impressions of the lies and the deceits we 
practice, and there they remain, weighing it down until such 
time as we eradicate them by awakening to the truth and prac- 
ticing the constructive life. 

When we confess Christ, we actually profess the Savior 
of the race, but neither confession or profession, when voiced 
in words, however solemn, will save the soul from its just fate. 
Jesus is said to have daily confessed his Sonship with God, 
not by words alone — but by living and demonstrating works that 
did not belie his declarations. Man may do no less; nor can 
man be saved otherwise than as Jesus saved himself — by living 
the life and becoming Consciously Individualized. 

The works of Jesus, even if we take him merely as an 
examplar, — an historical character, were the works of the Soul — 
a Soul that had become awakened, individualized, and brought 
into conscious manifestation, — into Oneness with the All Father. 
All of his work confessed the universal Creator, showing forth 
faith in both himself and the great, undeniable Law of cause 
and effect. Jesus confessed himself through his works, words 
were not necessary. The soul always shadows itself by its acts 
and deeds so that all who know may see "and understand. 

How many of us actually realize that we are daily con- 
fessing our own true selves so that all may see? 

Possibly we are well fed, clothed and warm, and we pro- 
fess to have pity for those out in the cold, starving and wander- 
ing about without comfort, yet we make no effort to relieve 
the sufferings of the needy, nor to open their eyes to the cause 
of their sorrows, or to a realization that there is a way whereby 
they may enjoy all the blessings of life if they will but learn to 
obey the Law of Compensation. 

We are self-righteous. Because fortune has favored us, 



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despite our unworthiness, we feel "holier-than-thou," and set 
ourselves up as examples, when as a fact, we might deserve to 
be in worse circumstances than the beggar of the street. 

We find it difficult to forgive those who have wronged us, 
all ignorant of the fact that we cannot truly and acceptably 
confess Christhood until we learn to forgive all those who have 
ill-used us and who hate us. This does not indicate an imbecile 
negativeness which refuses to punish the one guilty of wrong- 
doing, thereby inculcating the idea, because of our acts, that 
such were justified in what they did; it signifies the one uncon- 
tradictable fact that we should not punish with hatred or 
malice, but solely that justice may be upheld. 

To confess is to obey. If we would confess the Law which 
is absolute, we must obey that Law. To obey brings us the 
cross; it forces us to look within ourselves, to analyze every 
motive and every act, and prohibits us from placing the blame 
upon any but ourselves. 

Why should the cross cause suffering when it brings eternal 
life? All birth is in suffering? There is no other way to 
attain it — no other path to follow. No man or woman ever 
attained Conscious Individuality — the boon of Immortality, ex- 
cept by way of the Cross; giving up those things we foolishly 
believe are necessities, when as a fact, they are as millstones 
about our necks. As we awaken to the real life we see this to 
be true and we smile at our former foolish fears and sorrows. 
We know that our suffering was the result of delusions. 

As we gain strength and the light of understanding comes 
to us, as the beauty and desirability of an awakened soul dawns 
upon us, the cross loses its heaviness and its terrors and we go 
onward and upward in joy and peace and thanksgiving. Self 
is then no longer the earth chained thief claiming Sonship with 
God, while daily confessing by acts, indifference to duty, and 
fellowship with the evils and lustfulness of the world. On the 
contrary, it has become glorified, self-filled with righteousness 
and love. 



28 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Self is in reality the soul. The soul is builded of our 
"accumulated experiences." The personality, that which we are 
to-day and to-morrow, is the soul. It is as yet the unawakened 
soul. The individuality is unformed, undeveloped, non-existent. 
We build the self in the same manner that we must build the 
soul. This self which you and I, and almost all the units 
composing humanity are, is constructed out of the thoughts and 
ideas of the mind. Being unenlightened it is the personality. 
Once we awaken to a higher life we have accepted the An- 
nunciation, the John the Baptist; we commence to build the 
new being; we discontinue constructing the personality, and 
commence with the individuality. The one, the personality, is 
builded unconsciously by our daily unconscious acts. The 
other, the individuality, is the result of the conscious effort. 

We are what we think, not as we think we are. 

There is but one mind in so far as we are concerned, and 
this mind is the creator of our self (the personality), as well as 
our soul (the individuality). 

The sub-conscious mind is in reality the dormant mind of 
the soul. It is the outer shell, or house, of the soul whereon is 
impressed all that we think, desire, and do. 

Unless the soul itself is awakened, this subconscious being 
passes into the Beyond at death as an unconscious entity, to 
again commence the journey when the time is propitious. The 
mind will die as does the body. Only the subconscious with 
its many impressions, continues to exist. 

We are told the subconscious mind is a storage-house; a 
place or plane wherein all our thoughts and ideas are stored. 

This is not a correct statement. Let us liken the sub- 
conscious to a ball or a globe. In this ball or globe dwells the 
as yet unconscious soul. While the mind is unawakened, not 
having accepted John the Baptist, all our thoughts, desires, 
and acts are impressed upon this globe or ball on its external 
surface. When we awaken to the greater reality, an opening 
is made in this globe or ball, and our thoughts, desires, and 



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acts are impressed upon the awakening soul; the subconscious 
gives way to the awakening soul and if the process continues, 
Conscious Individuality, or the awakened, Illuminated Soul re- 
sults. 

The thoughts, ideas and acts are received, retained and 
remoulded by the soul and the soul is fashioned, moulded, and 
formed by the vibrations from the mind. 

The mind is the operator. It is likened to the architect 
who prepares plans for a house and looks after the building of 
it until it is completed. The soul, until such time as it has 
reached complete consciousness or illumination, is the subject. 
It is subservient to the will and action of the mind. 

Mind creates health by constantly thinking health; for the 
soul receives the thoughts of health from the mind, and mani- 
fests it throughout the body. Mind creates success by thinking 
success; the soul receiving the thoughts of plenty and manifest- 
ing it through the vibrations of the body. Mind commences to 
build immortality by thinking the pure, exalted thoughts neces- 
sary, by inducing conscious effort. The soul receives these ex- 
alted thoughts and desires and manifests them through a gradual 
consuming of the dross of mortality, thus giving place to a flame 
which, in due time, bursts forth as the Living Fire, and the 
baptism by the Holy Ghost results. 

When the body loses its heat and activity by what we know 
as death, the mind, having depended upon it for life, also dies, 
but that which was created by the mind while in the body, con- 
tinues to exist. This may be nothing more than the ball or 
globe whereon are the impressions of the thoughts, desires, and 
acts of the unconscious personality, or it may be the Winged 
Globe, the Illuminated Soul, which resulted from the conscious 
efforts of the personality wherein it dwelt. Existence beyond 
the grave is a continuation of life as discontinued on the earth 
plane. 

The exalted life commences in faith. Unless we have faith 
in something greater than existence as generally known and 



30 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

lived by the multitude, we will make no effort to reach beyond 
the ordinary. 

Faith is intensified thought and desire. Paul tells us that : 
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of 
things not seen." We may not accept any statement in the Bible 
as being the word of God, or as inspired. We may refuse to 
believe Paul to have been an apostle of a Divine Soul. All this 
is immaterial. We need but accept Paul as a philosopher; his 
statements as those coming from a trained psychologist; — the 
results, if we obey his inculcations, will be absolute. 

According to our faith, if we follow faith by activity, will 
it be unto us. 

According to our thoughts we will impress the Soul. 

If our desires will be virile we will act accordingly. 

Desires, when of active strength, will create concentration 
on the object to be achieved. 

Concentration in itself is neither more nor less than focuss- 
ed attention. This acts in like manner as would the holding of 
a glass so that the rays of the sun would be concentrated on a 
given spot. 

The focussed attention will create a condensed image, and 
this image will give birth to a created being. Therefore, accord- 
ing to our faith will be our thought ; desire awakens in harmony 
with the thought; our acts will be governed by the desires; our 
desires will focus our thoughts in concentration on a given 
object; this longing in turn will create an image of that which 
we wish to accomplish; and in harmony with this image will 
we make repeated, concentrated systematic effort for the achieve- 
ment of our object. 

Thought is therefore the substance of things hoped for; it 
is also the evidence of things not seen but which do exist. Man 
cannot think of that which has no existence, he has, however, 
attained to the power to give evidence of his thoughts; he has 
the key to production. Hoping for a thing causes us to think 
of it; faith induces us to work for it; by having faith, and 



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working for an object in view, we are enabled to create it. 

Thoughts are in reality faith; we could have no faith if 
we had no thought. "According to thy thoughts be it" is as 
certainly true as is "according to thy faith be it unto you." 

We manifest our faith in our thoughts, for we act accord- 
ing to the thoughts and desires of the mind. Thus it is that 
we have faith in the possession of an embryonic soul, when we 
commence to think, desire, and make effort to bring it into 
manifestation. 

When we confess our faith we confess our thoughts; mani- 
festing our thoughts in words. In confessing the Christ or 
Conscious Individuality, we commence to manifest this inner 
being. We produce Christie thoughts and desires. These are 
substance for they begin to build the Soul-being, just as the 
carpenter builds the house the moment he takes up his lumber 
and other materials ■ and commences to construct in harmony 
with previously prepared plans. 

Our body continually confesses our inner life, our thoughts 
and desires. Whatever may be the acts of the body they are in- 
dicative of the thoughts and desires of the mind. Almost uni- 
versally the acts of men symbolize an inner confusion. 

The body is merely the vehicle through which the mind 
manifests its thoughts and desires; it is likewise the medium 
through which the soul may work, illuminating a world. 

If there were no material substance moulded in the form 
of the body there could be neither mind nor soul. 

Every mind either creates or destroys a soul, since the em- 
bryonic soul is born into each body and must be awakened and 
illuminated, or returns to the Creator as an unconscious, imper- 
sonal entity. 

The mind is the architect which is to work through the 
body; the thoughts and desires are the materials with which to 
work, the conscious soul will be the result. 

The mind, capable of building a soul, is also potent to 
destroy a soul when built; just as an architect or carpenter can 



32 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

tear down the house previously constructed. Men no longer 
possessing a soul, or the spark which might become one, has 
destroyed it by continual evil, sensual, sejfish, degrading 
thoughts, desires, and acts. 

Have you ever given thought to the fact that all of us have 
been taught that Jesus was a carpenter? 

Have you ever considered the potency of the synonym for 
the word carpenter — builder? 

Jesus was called the carpenter, because He, like every one 
of us, had to build — construct — his own soul. He was given 
free will, even as you and I, to build the kind of a Soul he 
desired throughout the coming ages. He chose the Consciously 
Individualized Soul — that which Scripture terms the Christ. 

Matter, or the body, is merely the house for the Soul. The 
Soul must have a place wherein to dwell, a vehicle through 
which it may manifest. The body confesses the indwelling soul, 
or the lack of one. 

The body acknowledges either a Conscious Soul, or the 
possession of a demon. If the body continually manifests dis- 
ease, sin, anger, malice, conceit, selfishness, pride, then pity the 
soul; it is condemned, confessing, through the manifestation of 
these destructive passions its true self. On the contrary, if 
there is exhibited strength and fearlessness in the establishment 
of justice, continual effort for the attainment of health and 
success, a willingness to forgive, and a desire to help others, 
then the soul indicates that it is working toward the final goal 
of attaining Conscious Individuality. 

What is it that awakens and builds soul? 
Thoughts, desires, action, concentration, breathing, and right 
living; eternal effort to achieve; an object in view, the accom- 
plishment which nothing can stay; a non-interference with the 
activities of others so long as these do not conflict with our well- 
being. 

One of the first lessons to master is the absolute impossibil- 
ity of bringing greater harm to others than to ourselves. All 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 33 

thoughts sent out to others, every attempt to bring sorrow or loss 
to them, react upon the one attempting it, and are registered 
upon the Soul of the one making the effort. 

All that we can wish, desire and will, to come to another 
makes its indelible impress upon the soul within and is an 
eternal testimonial or confessor for, or against, our own self. 

It is impossible to attempt the destruction of another's soul 
without doing just that much to our own; and the soul cannot 
and will not lie to save itself. It is helpless to defend itself. 
It eternally must be what we are making it. It is impossible 
for us to make conscious efforts to purify our thoughts, free 
our actions from harmful results, and work toward spiritual 
growth and Illumination, without impressing all these on the 
soul and thus elevating it to that extent. The Law Is. Its ac- 
tion either one way or the other is absolute. 

The soul once awakened is powerful, eternal, and self- 
existing. No force in heaven or hell, no being, human or other- 
wise, on earth, in heaven or hades, can long keep it in bondage. 

Once Conscious Individuality is but partly attained, the 
soul evolves onward despite all trials and tribulations, all ob- 
stacles, all impediments. When it is awakened to an under- 
standing of its divine inheritance, and lives in the thought of 
truth and righteousness, — the food received from the mind, — it 
continually gains in power, ultimately attaining mastership and 
inheriting the promise: "Where I am there ye may be also." 

Ultimately the soul will give expression of itself. 

Even the dwarfed, the blind, the deaf, the dumb, and the 
crippled, if they possess a conscious soul, are not helpless but 
may be masters of men. 

Every soul possessed by man or woman in any stage of 
development, exists as long as there is some good in it. When 
it becomes entirely negative and yields time and again to posi- 
tive forces of destructive tendency, it will finally become totally 
irresponsible for itself and eventually have no power of its own 
to resist the evil. 



34 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

It has then destroyed itself. It has thrust itself asunder, 
thus fulfilling the prophecy of a second (and final) death as 
foretold by the master teacher in his edict: "The last state of 
that man is worse than the first." 

God Himself cast into space the fiat: "The soul that 
sinneth it shall die." No man, however great may be his claim 
to wisdom and accomplishment, can set aside the creative laws; 
these are interwoven with creation, and all that is created. 

Man's life is a daily, hourly confession of what he is, of 
the state of his soul. All that he thinks, desires, and commits, 
is burned into his innermost self as with fire, and manifests 
through every action of the physical being. 

There can be no erasure. Those who know may read. 

Only the regenerating life; the thinking of exalted thoughts, 
the holding of refined desires, and constructive acts can finally 
eradicate, by means of transmutation, the evils previously 
thought, desired, and acted. 

"Wherefore let them that suffer, according to the will of 
God (suffering because of a defiance of God's laws), commit 
the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing (when we act 
righteously we commit our soul to God) as unto a faithful 
Creator." 



The Second Birtk 

"There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a 
ruler of the Jews: 

"The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, 
"Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for 
no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be 
with him." 

Jesus answered him and said: "Verily, verily I say unto 
you, except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of 
God." Nicodemus said unto him: "How can a man be born 
when he is old ? Can he enter the second time into his mother's 
womb, and be born?" 

Jesus answered: "Except a man be born of water and of 
the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is 
born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is 
spirit." And Nicodemus again said: "How can these things 
be?" 

Jesus explained to him that the second birth must be of 
the Soul. The flesh born of flesh is flesh, and all men have an 
understanding of this birth; but the soul must be conceived and 
born through the efforts of an awakened mind, one comprehend- 
ing the truth at least in part, and through the application of 
thought, desire and work bring about the new birth. 

Nicodemus was undoubtedly a master in his own sphere of 
action. He was a great man among the Jews; a leader even in 
religious affairs. He understood many things pertaining to the 
world and government, but spiritually he was in darkness and 
came to the master of Light; and though the great teacher uttered 
words of the most sublime significance, yet to him, they were 
phrases of mystery. 



36 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

He readily comprehended that it was impossible for the 
grown physical man to again enter the mother's womb and be 
reborn in the flesh; but he could not understand the spiritual 
birth, therefore asked again: "How can these things be?" 

And Jesus went on to explain to him that, "as Moses lifted 
up the serpent in the wilderness, * even so must the son of man 
be lifted up." 

The master teacher explained to Nicodemus that men lived 
in darkness because they had no conception of the Light; that 
the not good which is representative of darkness, hates the light 
and will not come into it because light would destroy it. He ex- 
pounded the doctrine that the possession of the light is the reali- 
zation that there is no real and lasting enjoyment or pleasure in 
evil deeds, though men are deluded in the idea that their advan- 
tage over others is in the methods of craft and the shady side of 
transactions. He elucidated on the mystery that evil loses its 
power over man when man understands its illusions and snares; 
that all evil is of the night and its darkness ; that the desires and 
lusts of the flesh are governed by the passions represented by 
the night of life, and that truth never comes to man as long as 
he clings to his sensual fleshly desires. 

Jesus was explicit in his statements to Nicodemus, clearly 
indicating to him that many, like him, came seeking while they 
were still held in the thraldom to earthly desires; loath to give 
up that which held them in bondage; but that no man can com- 
prehend the truth until he has experienced the rebirth — the 
birth into the newer and fuller life — that of Conscious Individ- 
uality. 

"How can these things be?" 

This has been the cry of the ages, but the multitude have 
consistently refused to accept the answer. Forever are the 



*It is not our desire to bear on the sex mystery in the pres- 
ent treatise, and would therefore refer the reader to the text 
book "Race Regeneration; The Mystery of Sex." Humanitarian 
Society, Quakertown, iPenna. 



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masses turning away from the expounder of the saving truth 
and seeking the mountebank who offers salvation by faith, the 
forgiveness of sins, and the doctrine of substantiation. 

"How can these things be?" 

Jesus said: "As the son of man (man born of the flesh) 
is lifted up," that is to say, man must first awaken to the fact 
that the life he has been living was actually an existence of 
death. Appreciation of this truth is the annunciation, it is John 
crying in the wilderness. Having come into this much truth, 
he must seek to learn the method of regeneration; must give up 
his life of sin, malice, hatred, deceit, and licentiousness; must 
begin to transmute hatred into forgiveness, deceit into honesty, 
license into love and fair dealing. This is the passover, — the 
passing from one state to another. Having travelled thus far 
he must then make conscious effort to regenerate and rejuvenate 
his entire being. As he does this he will gradually arouse with- 
in himself the divine spark so long lying dormant. This spark 
will ultimately burst forth into a flame and when its full devel- 
opment has taken place, when man's estate (within) has been 
attained, the Fires from heaven, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, 
will descend and bathe it. This is the rebirth. Man has been 
lifted up — synonymous in every respect with the first fall of the 
soul into matter — man has reached Conscious Individuality. 
This is Immortality. 

"Verily, verily I say unto you, except a man be born again 
he cannot see the kingdom of God." There is no offer here of 
the forgiveness of sin, of salvation by faith, or the doctrine of 
substantiation. "Unless a man be born again he cannot see 
{enter) the kingdom of heaven." Surely this is explicit enough. 

Man must be lifted up, that is he must change from his 
life of evil to that of goodness. The thoughts must be changed. 
With the reversal of thought will come other desires, and with 
these aspirations will result ennobled action. Jesus did no- 
where claim to be the only son of God. On the contrary, he 



38 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

repeatedly tells us that we are all (or may be) the sons of God. 
We are part of Him. We came from Him. He is our creator. 
We are His representatives, His messengers. In truth we are 
more often prototypic of the trusted messengers in the army, 
who, sent forth with confidential messages to be delivered to 
friendly powers, betray the trust and place the information 
into the hands of the enemy. We are traitors to ourselves as 
we are to Him who gave us life and opportunity. 

Each one of us has a message if we will but deliver it. 
This is the message of good-will, of love, of fellowship, of 
service. It is the message of opportunity, the privilege of point- 
ing out to our fellow-men the path to a more exalted life. How 
many of us even partially prove true to the trust placed in us? 
Let each one in his own heart answer the question. 

When we transmute hatred and jealousy into forgiveness 
and good-will, when we have a kind word and encouraging 
recommendation for our fellow man instead of the usual fault- 
finding and destructive gossip, we have entered the path that 
leads to the new birth, the awakening and immortalizing of the 
soul. On the contrary, it is immaterial how exalted our opinion 
of ourselves, of our powers, our wisdom or our advancement, 
as long as we are ready to pass tEe damning word of our fellow 
creatures and thereby push them farther in the rear, making 
their path more difficult. We have as yet not taken the first step 
toward the rebirth, the boon of Conscious Individuality. 

The rebirth begins by a change of mind — a reversal of the 
mentality. If you are in the habit of allowing your mind to 
drift into thoughts you would not care to give utterance to before 
others, you are departing from the truth, from the center of sal- 
vation. The mind is the creator. It is the builder; the son of 
Joseph the carpenter. The mind is the dynamo of the good and 
of the destructive. The mind must be changed so that it will 
think ennoblingly and constructively. Mind first awakens by 
its desires, then builds the soul through the thoughts, the long- 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 39 

ings, and the acts following in the wake of thought and aspira- 
tion. 

The soul is in reality likened unto a huge vessel filled with 
divers cargo. Some truly beautiful things may be stored in 
its hold, but predominating is grossest rubbish. The soul, what- 
ever its freight, is doomed to carry it into port. There are but 
two ports to reach — one is continued life, the other is death. 
Man's rebirth begins within himself. He alone is able to effect 
it. Others can help him by pointing the way, by gmding and 
encouraging him, but he dare not depend upon another than 
himself for the actual accomplishment of the work. We were 
all thrown into space by the Universal Creator (Jehovah), or 
call him God if you will. We all may be the sons of God, and 
when Christ appears to us, which is only when we have prepared 
the temple, have lighted the Fire on the inner Altar of the soul 
and are ready for the heavenly baptism, then shall we be "like 
him, for we shall be as he is" and shall "stand face to face." 

Much of the misunderstanding, therefore of the wicked- 
ness of mankind to-day, is caused by the false interpretations 
(often for the purely selfish purposes of men and institutions), 
of the religious inculcations of those who were undoubtedly 
Masters, Christs, and Saviors of the race at various stages of its 
growth, and during the several ages of which we have authentic 
records. 

Man may be possessed of a master intellect yet be without 
understanding of spiritual things, — and be lacking greatly in 
wisdom. 

We have run away from the real self, hidden ourselves 
from it, as did Adam and Eve from the face of God while they 
were yet in the garden. We have allowed the inner self to take 
care of itself, have starved it and covered it with vast piles of 
rubbish; not comprehending that in so doing we have actually 
placed behind us the things we are seeking; just as did the 
knights of old during King Arthur's time, when, in quest of the 



40 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Holy Giail, they sought in every corner of the known world, 
ignorant of the fact that it was within themselves. 

We have faced about, turned our back to the Light and 
dwell in the darkness, striving to pierce through the veil to find 
the Sun, when in reality the Sun is within ourselves — for the 
soul of man is the sun of his body. Thus, instead of having 
turned to the East for Light and following the sun to the West, 
we have foolishly turned to the West, continuing to live in dark- 
ness, and often in despair. 

Jesus was born of the flesh and also born of God, just as 
we are born of the flesh and may be born of God. 

All the initiates of the Egyptians understood the conception 
of Christ as Osiris. This was the name given to their Savior 
just as we have given the appellation "Christ" to the Divine 
Essence of the Father dwelling within each real mortal. Osiris, 
to the Egyptians, was as the Sun or Soul of God; so is Christ 
the Sun, or Son of the Father. Osiris was to them the principle 
of love, truth, and perfection; thus is the Christ to the moderns. 
They taught the rebirth in the symbolism of the New Year. The 
New Year represented the dying of the old (the giving up of 
the carnal life) and the birth of the New (birth into the spiritual 
life), the lifting up of the flesh and its transmutation into that 
which is immortal. Their Isis was the mother, the virgin giving 
birth at midnight to the New Sun (Son) who should rule over 
them and guide them. This new birth resulted from the death 
of the flesh (Winter) and was lifted up to the brightness and 
joy fulness of the new, purified sun. 

Jesus taught the same truths and demonstrated them. 

He had been instructed and trained by the Egyptians as 
had Moses before him. He inculcated the saving tenent: "As 
Moses lifted up the serpent (debased forces) in the wilderness 
(body), even so must the son of man (mortal being) be lifted 
up." 

This "lifting of the serpent" was merely symbolic — em- 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 41 

blematical of life as understood and practiced by the Initiate 
Egyptians and taught by them in their higher initiatory rites, 
even as now elucidated in the iEth Priesthood. 

Osiris is the true conception as one who has become the 
Son of God, and so is Christ. 

We must be born again even as the old year dies and, 
passing through hades (fires of purification) is born anew. We 
also may be born of the virgin (purity) and be lifted up as the 
new sun arises in the heaven after its three days and three 
nights in the Winter Solstice. This is the immaculate concep- 
tion. 

We must seek for the "Sun" (Soul) or Son (Christos) 
within ourselves. We cannot find one in another which will 
save us. 

We alone are responsible for what we do, for what we are. 
None other can harm us or destroy us, any more than we have 
the power to hurt or destroy another. 

If we hate we send out only vibrations that may, or may 
not, be received by another soul, then reflected back to our own 
mind, thence be redirected to our soul, there making a lasting 
impression. This gradually, if continued, saturates our real 
self with the poison created by our own mind; the soul retain- 
ing its virulency, ultimately becomes so fully submerged as to 
be wholly gross and evil. 

These thoughts are sometimes so venomous that they pro- 
duce sickness, insanity, or even death. We have known in- 
stances where violent fits of anger have produced paralytic 
strokes, and these occurring frequently resulted in death. 

Through destructive passions the mind inoculates the soul 
with poison. The soul in turn taints the body with them; the 
body, through the nervous system, fills the mind with these 
virulent forces; thus we have a continuous circle of destroying 
influences. 

In the sermon on the Mount, Jesus warned his audience to 



42 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

beware of hate and revenge. He clearly indicated that even 
love offerings to God would be unacceptable if the heart held 
thoughts of hatred or malice toward another. Worship of God 
with hatred in the heart, does not harmonize. 

By allowing the destructive passions to remain in the mind 
and heart we harbor destructive forces which will ultimately 
destroy the soul, the real self. That is the Law. "Thou shalt 
by no means come out thence, until thou hast paid the last 
farthing." No forgiveness of sins here, no vicarious atonement. 
Thou, and thou alone, must pay, pay even unto the last farthing. 

Self, which is the mind, is responsible for all things. 

Self creates self and governs self. 

No man can force another to love him if that other refuses. 
He may rule over another; may command obedience and out- 
ward reverence, but the heart of the one thus enslaved may be 
full of hatred and rebellion. The physical man may be ruled 
by those stronger, but the inner self of the individual cannot 
be reached or touched except by the self. 

That which is hated by the soul will never be acceptable 
to it. Remember that the soul is the receiver of all thoughts; 
good, bad, and indifferent. It receives everything sent out by 
the mind; but if the mind be pure and strong, then all evil 
thoughts sent out by other minds and readily impressed upon 
the negative, are rejected. 

The power of the hypnotist may destroy mind and soul of 
another, if that other mind be in harmony with his own, but if 
the mind be pure it cannot be forced to vibrate in unison with 
evil, and destructive suggestions will not be accepted. Conse- 
quently we are the savior or the destroyer of our own selves. 
God created no man evil. Man allowed himself to become so. 

All is individual responsibility. 

When we love the soul (universally termed the "Christ"), 
we then love our real self. If we reverence that self we will do 
nothing which may destroy it. When we countenance the not 
good we destroy the real self. We do not really love the soul. 



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We always and forever, despite all forces, protect, cherish 
and reverence that which we truly love, and when we see multi- 
tudes flinging themselves away for the mere glitter of gold, in 
lustful indulgences, and evil practices, we know they desire 
these more than the salvation of their souls. 

There is a presence always with us; one we may not be 
aware of or see. 

It manifests itself in our every movement, in all our 
actions. 

It smiles at us with gentle, caressing tenderness and purity, 
or it leers at us with bold, unseemly glare. 

This is the Soul. 

Wherever we go, there it goes also. It is within us, drink- 
ing of the cup we drink, eating of the food we eat. This is our 
real self; it is that which continues to exist after mind and 
body are no more. 

The unawakened soul is in the darkness of night; yet no 
night can be so dark as to prevent the soul from seeking Light. 

Though our evil acts may be crimson, they may be made 
as white as snow. The pure thoughts, lofty desires, and aspira- 
tional longings for a purified, ennobled soul will transmute all 
that is evil and ignoble within us. 

We owe the world the best that is in us, and not the worst. 

Our thoughts as created in the mind will continually por- 
tray our attitude toward humanity. If we think love, we will 
manifest it toward others and will build a soul strong and 
loving. The philosophy of Christie endeavor is not of external, 
superficial ceremonies; it is in the mind, — the thoughts; in the 
heart, — the soul. 

To be born again, begin the conception by thinking kindly, 
generously, liberally and lovingly of everything and everybody 
you must meet and come into contact with. You are then 
commencing to conceive — the Christ. 

This in nowise countenances wrong or evil. We must be 
uncompromising with those who are attempting evil, but this 



44 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

does not indicate that we may not have a kindly thought for 
even the person who acts destructively. It is not the person- 
ality against which we should wage war, but against the evil 
itself. 

All the religions of pretense and hypocricy cannot make 
the soul beautiful. True religion brings you face to face with 
what you are. Analyze yourself and thereby learn to know your 
weaknesses as well as your strength. Transmute the evils into 
love and power. 

The great Tolstoi wrote: "If we begin to live rightly as 
Christ (Jesus) taught us, we could no longer continue to live 
wrongly." To begin to live as Jesus taught we must think as 
he thought, and once we do this we will shortly learn to live 
right. 

The Christ, meaning the Holy Fire, is the illuminator of 
mind and soul. 

Light is always an illuminator. 

Darkness, always evil, forever is trying to shadow the light. 

Darkness is without form, is void and in chaos until the 
Spirit of God (the Light), moves upon it and illuminates it. 
Thus it is with the body and the soul. 

Take self to task for every thought and every word spoken. 
Eliminate the unkindness, the antagonism, and evil from your 
mentality, and the Divine Fire will illuminate the darkness and 
you will gain understanding. 

The Light is latent within you. 

As long as you retain mind to think, the power to attain 
perfection is in your possession. 

You are the thinker, the builder of the Soul. 

You can build as beautifully and as perfectly as did Solo- 
mon of old. The same plans and specifications are awaiting 
your acceptance. 

You are both the mother and the father of your own soul. 



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You must impregnate it with thought and desire; you must 
give it birth through your labors. 

It may bring you some pain and sorrow, for you may have 
become wedded to practices and possessions which are unde- 
sirable. All life-giving is painful, but the joy of the offspring 
brings many rewards for the suffering. 

To attain Conscious Individuality may cost many a bitter 
struggle, but the crown of Illumination (Light) is worth it and 
will alight all space; it is the spirit upon the waters, and it 
brings life eternal — it is Immortality. 



Mind Creations 

Mind creates health by constantly thinking health; for the 
soul receives the thoughts of health from the mind, and mani- 
fests it throughout the body. Mind creates success by thinking 
success; the soul receiving the thoughts of plenty and manifest- 
ing it through the vibrations of the body. Mind commences to 
build immortality by thinking the pure, exalted thoughts neces- 
sary, by inducing conscious effort. The soul receives these ex- 
alted thoughts and desires and manifests them through a gradual 
consuming of the dross of mortality, thus giving place to a flame 
which, in due time, bursts forth as the Living Fire, and the 
baptism by the Holy Ghost results. 



Tke Soul 

The sublimity of the soul depends entirely upon the ex- 
altedness of the mind. A clean, fair ennobled mind will create 
a pure, gentle, trusting, God-like soul, and throughout the ages 
and all eternity, such a Conscious entity will continue to exist. 

This soul is our judge. It is our Judas, or it is our savior. 

Whatever degree of perfection through goodness and justice 
we may have attained, will be established in the soul. This 
cannot be destroyed unless we lay it desolate, by encompassing 
it as were encircled the walls of Jericho, by the hosts of the 
Philistine lords of evil. The soul is a picture painted by an 
artist — it unerringly portrays every thought, desire and deed in 
bold and undeniable accuracy and stands before us — we are 
betrayed, the convicted, by our own selves, or we emerge in 
triumphant victory if we can judge ourselves as righteous. When 
the soul reveals itself and we are thus able to see and read the 
scroll aright, we will know ourselves as we are, and not as we 
thought ourselves to be. 

As though a veil were lifted, we were allowed to see be- 
yond the far, dim, misty past, where in ages of blindness and 
egotism, we built the immortal part of us. The record is there. 
It has been most faithfully kept. It is neither blurred nor 
broken. It is easily read, is unchanging and true. Far better 
for a man to lose the whole world than his own soul. When 
the soul is lost then all is indeed ended. 

A corrupt mind builds a perverted soul. 

An abnormal mind creates and makes of the soul a mons- 
trosity. 

An unnatural mind produces an abnormal soul. 
All that the mind is the soul must be. 



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When you think certain thoughts you thereby form 05 
mould a picture of them and this image lives. It is filled with 
life. It is a living thing — it is reality itself. It is your crea- 
tion, and if it is evil it is prepared and ready to condemn you 
when the hour of judgment comes. If potentized with good it 
is your Redeemer of whose presence you may have been totally 
ignorant. When you stand upon the summit of earthly desires, 
clothed only in the husks of the mortal flesh, without one ray 
of white light from the soul to hold you back from the deep, 
dark precipice of death, you are lost. The soul that might have 
been you, returns to the All-Father unindividualized. 

However, it is immaterial how tiny the spark. If one is 
there, then it may be kindled into life and flame and gradually 
give you immortality. Oh, Neophyte, turn from the illusions 
of the senses, the delirium of the flesh, from the earth, the 
earthly. 

God dwells everywhere. He is in all that is living. God 
is never behind a veil. He is not shrouded in darkness and 
mystery. He is everywhere. He seeks to be known. He may 
be your companion if you gain Inner Consciousness. We are 
the ones who wear the veil, who look through a glass, darkly. 
We fail to see Him, due to our own blindness. 

Because we are blind of soul we say God is in the Beyond, 
is unknown, or unknowable. But the moment we free ourselves 
from illusions, carnal senses, and the flesh which degrades, we 
find that He is both known and knowable. We then see Him 
as He is, know Him, and find ourselves like Him. We are a 
reflection, or an emanation, of Him; for did He not create man 
in His own image? 

We must comprehend, that as the sun is the soul of the 
universe in which we live, so must the Creator be the Father 
of the Universe. 

He is the creator (mind), the sun is the soul, and the 
universe the body — the mirror of mind and sun. 



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It has been well said that "mind in itself is a subtle form 
of static energy, from which arises the activities called thought, 
which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, 
thought dynamic energy — two phases of one thing." Walker. 

The sun is a magnetic force. It draws from the earth, — 
the universe, the life forces that energize all things. We are 
but the reflection of the universe. Our minds are potential 
energies. Our souls are analogous to the sun. 

When we harmonize the body, when the mind and the 
soul are blended as are the earth and the sun, and potentized 
by God, then we have attained oneness. We have experienced 
the exchange of mind forces and soul-potencies. This signifies 
the harmonious adjustment of the two. The body having united 
the two wings, — the winged globe results. This partakes of 
the nature of both. We now have an entity that consciously 
utilizes both, and combines them; — thus is Mastership attained. 

Thus we have, in a final analysis: 

Electric Energy 
MIND Positive Force 

The Creator 

Centrifugal Energy 
GOD Director 

Creator 

SUN Centripetal Energy 

Created 



SON 



Negative 



Awakened Soul 
CHRIST ' Conscious Individuality 
Immortality 



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The Christ 
THE SOUL The Son of God 

The Sun of Ra. "The Sons of the Rays of 
the Cross." 

When we mentally break away from the illusions and fas- 
cination of the carnal, when we begin to long for a clean heart, 
a purified and exalted soul, we have planted the seed. This is 
the conception. 

As we commence to grow into goodness, kindness, fairness, 
and non-judgment of others, we are preparing for the birth, the 
coming forth of the Christ. 

As the three ancient Wise men were led across the deserts 
and seas, so may our mentality and personal self come to bow 
in reverence and thanksgiving before the babe, our newly 
awakened soul, the Saviour-to-be, not only of ourselves, but of 
mankind as well. We discern the lowliness of the habitation 
of flesh — the manger in Bethlehem. At his feet we lay our 
choicest gifts and return (mind, spirit and body — each to per- 
form its own proper functions) unto our own country, where 
no illusions of the kings of earthly desires any longer have 
power to destroy the Holy Child; — the Christos within us. 

All that Jesus is said to have been, we can be. Within 
him was fostered the seed of the Immortals — within him was 
born the Son of God; within him, grown into maturity, was the 
Saviour of the world — his world, and as he "was lifted up, so 
were other men lifted by (to) him." He was born human. 
Just as we are thus born. He was a creature of flesh, blood and 
bone, even as we are. He was conceived under the same law, 
subject to like temptations, trials, sufferings and sorrows as we 
are; but he learned that, which few of the many do — that a, 



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Soul dwelt within him and every truly human being. He 
recognized the Divine Spark within and shortly became cog- 
nizant of the fact that this is in every personal entity. Jesus 
was mortal even as all men are mortal, but he created within 
himself, the divine counterpart of the Father — his own soul. 

It is even written that when the thoughts of his mind turn- 
ed to things material, he hungered — thereby recognizing that in 
God exists only the eternal, the immortal; while mortal man 
must receive material necessities and personal attentions. But 
he did more than this. When thoughts of power over other 
kingdoms of earth began to stir within the sphere of his mind, 
he realized that only, in God, is to be found lasting power. 
"And the devil (evil desires) leaveth Him, and behold, angels 
(good and constructive thoughts and longings) came and min- 
istered unto Him." 

When all false ideas are cast out, when all illusions of the 
senses and carnal self are transmuted, then is the illumination 
of the soul possible. The Christos within man awakens, and 
Conscious Individuality is thereby attained. 

If the Immaculate Conception of an historic Jesus Christ, 
as universally interpreted, were an actual fact, then only man 
would be saved, because such conception would then have 
occurred only to the male of the human species; while the fe- 
male, as in ages past, would exist only for the gratification of 
the male and for the general purpose of reproduction. 

The seed of God, the Soul of man, is not sexless. Soul 
is as truly and as strongly sexed as the body. It is written 
that when God created humans He created them "both male and 
female." Each has a part in the great creative plan. As bodies 
and souls are sexed, so are the minds. There is both a mas- 



52 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

culine and a feminine mind. The masculine mind builds the 
positive (creative) soul. The feminine mind builds the nega- 
tive (receptive) soul. Were the masculine mind to build a 
feminine soul, or the feminine mind a masculine one, creation 
would soon become sexless and the natural laws of generation 
be destroyed; reproduction shortly cease, and where there is no 
longer generation, there is nothing to regenerate. 

It is woman's duty to build her soul according to the 
feminine principle of God. Mary, like Isis in Egypt, was 
chosen to represent the begetting power of a Divine principle. 
Women need not become weaklings, incapable and dependent, 
because of femininity, for the feminine principle is just as 
strong, and certainly as necessary, as the masculine. 

When woman attempts, of her own free will, to take man's 
place, she begins to build a masculine mind, and thereby re- 
verses the natural order of God's law. Her body, her features, 
her voice and manners become coarse and masculine. Her mind 
becomes negative in its negativity. She is a monstrosity in 
nature, — a disgrace to her sex and damned of God, thereby 
losing her birthright — the possibility of salvation of soul. Like 
unto this are many of our modern female professional politicians 
and reformers. 

A positive, feminine mind, produces positive, feminine 
thoughts, which are as strong as the masculine, and in thinking 
thus, she becomes masculine, thereby building and producing 
forces which effectually subdue (destroy) all that is truly 
feminine. 

She is taking the law into her own hands, is working con- 
trary to the divine law and order, and punishment is certain, 
and assured. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 53 

It is hardly necessary to explain at any great length the 
mortal danger resulting from such misunderstanding or abuse 
of the divine law. God did not make man both male and fe- 
male; nor did He make woman both female and male. What 
God did not do man cannot be successful in producing. When 
it is attempted to polarize the mind and soul both masculine 
and feminine it is the same in result, as when there is an effort 
made to establish the two opposing principles in the physical 
being. Now and again individuals are so born. These we 
designate as hermaphrodites, but they are unnatural. They 
cannot create, and what is infinitely worse, they cannot build 
a soul, consequently Immortality is not for them. 

Even the Father, contrary to all that has been erroneously 
taught, is not both masculine and feminine. He is the mas- 
culine, the earth is the feminine. It is the positive force of 
God potentizing the mother, that produces creation; for is it 
not written that until the waters were separated from the earth, 
and the sun shone thereon, creation of living creatures did not 
take place? 

The Divine Mystery therefore is herein. Mind and soul, 
in relation to each other, are positive and negative forces — the 
producer, electric; the receiving, magnetic; but in relation to 
the Universal Mind or Creator, human mind and soul draws 
(attracts) the feminine (love and sympathy) principle. 

When the masculine begins to build the feminine, the posi- 
tive mind becomes negative and the soul thereby is unsexed and 
inertized. We often meet with such creatures. We term them, 
in contempt and derision, "Henry Pecks." Why should we not 
have an equally applicable term for the inverted and perverted 
female ? 



54 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

The soul is magnetically poised and draws to itself all that 
is attuned to it. 

If the soul is masculine, then it draws to itself construc- 
tive and creative forces. If it is feminine, then it is receptive 
and productive. Remember always, the masculine is the elec- 
trical — the producer; while the feminine is the magnetic — the 
receptive and reproductive. 

The soul cannot become electrical, because it is always to 
draw to itself, and receive, the thoughts, desires and longings 
of the mind. 

What the soul is, the body reflects. Therefore if the soul 
could be both male and female, it would reflect this state through 
the body. The body would necessarily be both. This is impos- 
sible, consequently the dual forces would be continually at war 
within the body; a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde existence, until death 
would kindly step in to end the fray. 

All teachings, which inculcate the development of both 
principles in one body, are radically wrong and wholly destruc- 
tive. They are dangerous not only to the individual who is 
foolish enough to accept them, but also to the entire race, and 
totally contrary to the divine law under which man was created; 
— man, masculine; woman, feminine. Each has a noble sphere 
of action in the divine plan; to defy the law, is to court destruc- 
tion. 

Jesus during his ministry, did not separate himself as one 
sanctified, holy and apart from other men. He did not claim 
for himself more and less for others. It is written that he said : 
"Thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, and they in us." They are 
all those who have learned to know the Father, who have 



UUaibU>- 



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awakened the Soul within, who have attained Conscious Indi- 
viduality. 

Jesus never taught a law which men are unable to obey. 

The laws established through his ministry were not his 
own, nor were they enacted by the Father at that specific time. 
They had always existed. Jesus merely reaffirmed them in 
language which all men might comprehend, and obey, if they 
would. 

Moreover, it is written that he said: "The works I do are 
of God and the words which ye hear are not mine, but the 
Father's, which sent me." All he did, was to instruct the people 
in the divine law, and to demonstrate it as far as possible. 

Jesus was human and he experienced all that the rest of 
humanity must pass through, during the sojourn on mother 
earth. He was tempted by the same forces — the lure and attrac- 
tion of the senses, but understanding the why and the wherefore, 
he saw that which we fail to comprehend — that the senses are 
false gods that lead us to our own destruction. To overcome 
these senses does not signify that we may not enjoy all that we 
possess; but to subject the call of these senses to the reason of 
righteousness and purity, makes us all the more capable of en- 
joying what is desirable and good. When we are slaves to sen- 
sations we are not the master. To become the master we must 
overcome all that would lead us astray. 

We have every right to love, but we must not become en- 
snared by that which is impure and degrading. We may enjoy, 
to the full, all that is right and constructive,, but we should re- 
fuse to be submerged in the desires of carnal senses. These 
always lead to ultimate destruction of the individuality. 

We are our own saviors, just as we are the creators of our 



56 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

own immortal beings. We may have become as a little child 
and learn the mysteries that have dumbfounded the wisest of 
philosophers. We may open our blinded eyes to see the secret 
places of the Most High and may enter the Holy of all Holies. 
We may open our ears to the wisdom and understanding of the 
ages. We can make the halting soul walk in lightness of spirit. 
We can cast out devils of unbelief and selfishness. We can 
raise the dead soul from the tomb of darkened beliefs and 
iniquity, and inherit the kingdom of eternal life. 

Every man is aware of his own experiences — those of the 
mind and soul as well as those of the body. We experience 
pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, health and sickness. All 
these are a part, a link, a stage in the making of a soul; and 
these experiences are woven into truths that make or mar us. 
All that we place into the living and get out of life, makes us 
what we are. 

The best comes in what we have extracted from life's ex- 
periences. When we have obtained only the good, as the refiner 
secures only the gold through his process of extraction, we are 
through these experiences building up Christie Substances. 

It is only necessary to analyze our life, our accumulated 
experiences, to know what we have produced. If we learn to 
know as Jesus, or Apollonius knew, we may also be tempted 
without ginning. The Awakened Soul was the Light that 
guarded and saved them from darkness and the many pitfalls. 
This Light is in you, and will light and guide you as it did 
the various world teachers. It is certain and unfailing and will 
never lead you astray if you will but follow it. 

As your past made your present, so your present thoughts, 
desires and deeds will make your future. You are now building 
your own Soul. What will it be? 



Building tke Soul 



We commence to build when we begin to accumulate. 

To build a soul we must first choose the nature of the soul 
desired, just as the architect plans the house he proposes to 
construct. We must first come to an agreement, with the all of 
ourselves, as to just what we want to become, not only for the 
present, but more especially throughout the future. We must 
create a mental picture of the structure from the foundation to 
the attic, and even decide upon the furniture and the decora- 
tions. 

Harmony must prevail from one end of the structure to 
the other. 

We do not care for the same furniture in every room, but 
we desire that all that we possess be placed in such a manner 
as to give the best service and the greatest benefit. If our 
inclinations are for a palace, it will assuredly require more 
time and energy to build it, than if we select the plans for a 
cottage. The more beautiful the structure, the more considera- 
tion and labor will be required. 

In the building of soul, we plan thus: 

The Christie-Principle 

r The foundation. 

The Christie-Truths 

The Christie-Faculties The rooms. 

The Christie-Forces The decorations. 

The Christie-Potency The furniture. 



58 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

First we must plan, and that most carefully, then we must 
begin to accumulate our material; whatever the kind we have 
decided upon. We must obtain the necessary tools, and, hav- 
ing gathered all these essentials, we must commence the work, 
never giving up until the temple is built. 

We must work understandingly, with a firm determination 
and with a will that nothing can sway; despite all obstacles, 
losses, sorrows, pains and miseries, or we will never accomplish 
our undertaking — our house will not be built. 

When we build a soul we are indeed building a palace. It 
is the temple wherein God will become domiciled throughout 
time and eternity. It is necessary that we most carefully ex- 
amine, test, and make certain of all that enters into the build- 
ing thereof. Everything must fit in correctly, must be chiseled 
and modeled after the design of the best and greatest in us; 
otherwise it will not stand when the fires and waters sweep by 
the way. 

Man is the temple of the living God. Therein is the Soul; 
within the Soul must be lighted the sacred and ever-burning 
flame. It is on this burning altar that the fires of heaven com- 
mingle with those of the individualized soul. If this temple is 
to be acceptable to the Creator, then it must be builded after 
His immortal pattern. 

This is the only temple that has ever been built, or that 
can ever be built, without "sound of hammer." It is like the 
temple built by Solomon the wise; he who was blessed of God. 

We must begin the building of this temple by first thinking, 
— by the accumulation of these Godly thoughts; our thoughts 
being the material which we use in the building of the temple. 

Desire is the first step. Knowledge is the second. Both 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 59 

are of utmost importance. With the first constructive thoughts, 
we commence to build the foundation; therefore, let it be upon 
the rock; that when we are tempted we may not fall. We must 
daily think over the plans formulated, then live and act in 
harmony with these thoughts. This is concentration. Concen- 
tration results in accumulation. It is the cause of effect; cause 
always producing effect in harmony with itself. Concentration 
opens the gate to knowledge. Enlightenment is man's greatest 
inheritance. We live by the wisdom which we possess and we 
have the right to gain as much as we possibly can. We con- 
tinually demonstrate our inner understanding by the way we 
live. 

It is not necessary, though highly desirable, to be deeply 
versed in the text-books of schools and colleges to be able to 
acquire wisdom. The savage possess a knowledge of nature 
that few white men have ever attained with all their texts. 
Man may be educated in the greatest universities of the day, yet 
possess little wisdom, and still less spirituality — that which 
makes men like the gods. 

Multitudes are groping about the paths of materialism, 
studying and wondering at the mysteries and forces of nature 
and of life; totally unable to solve the least problem connected 
with either; yet may be mighty in their learning, in the so- 
called materialistic science. 

The teachings of this book are directed toward the cultiva- 
tion of the inner life, and the wisdom of the soul, though in no 
way condemnatory of material science except where it attempts 
to make of men machines, mechanisms propelled by every 
wave of fate. 

Limited in number are those who know they are to-day 



60 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

possessed of the divine inheritance — a soul. Fewer still who 
know what, or where, the soul is. Man must earnestly and 
steadfastly long for a conscious soul before he may possess one; 
just as we must be in need of, and desire, a house before we 
will think of securing one. That which man is in need of, 
and does not desire, he will make little effort to possess. It is 
therefore, essential to give birth to desire. All that we can 
aspire to, or crave, we can attain, or obtain, if we are sufficiently 
sincere in our efforts, never resting our endeavors, until we have 
succeeded. 

The first step is to desire. Until this initial potency has 
been aroused in us, knowledge of the soul is impossible to man. 
The desires then awaken the intuitional forces within man, and 
enable him to plan, to accumulate, to build. Finally, the gain- 
ing of the knowledge leads him to certain, though sometimes 
slow, growth of soul. 

Those seeking the knowledge of the mystic — the realms of 
the spiritual, must come as children, willing to obey and cheer- 
fully follow the instructions receivable from those who have 
gone the Way before; these having blazed the trail for the 
guidance of those coming after. If the aspirant is thus willing, 
he will be able to avoid many of the pitfalls and snares which 
inevitably fall to the lot of those who attempt alone the way to 
the highest, the Holy of Holies, Isis, to all that is. 

These pitfalls and snares are often created by those with 
an abundance of pseudo-knowledge and creeds for the salva- 
tion of men's souls by justification, or those who offer to escort 
the weary or superficial seeker over the "Threshold" without 
any preparation or purification, all within the period of a few 
hours. These ghouls are themselves damned of God, and damn 



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the souls of almost all those with whom they come in contact 
and whom they are able to influence to believe in their powers. 

These are frequently potent to turn the student aside from 
the right path and lure him into subtle temptations and material- 
ism ; due to the fact that men almost universally desire to possess 
a halo of glory, without any great self-effort. Seeking to obtain 
"something for nothing" they but doom their unworthy and de- 
ceptive souls. 

All who rush into the psychic world, without preparation, 
are liable to fall into the grossest errors, losing health, strength 
(mental and moral strength), and often ending in insane asyl- 
ums or total depravity. 

The student must have gained mastery of his selfish self 
before he may venture with safety far on the path of initiation, 
and must have the protection of those who know the way thor- 
oughly ; who would lead him aright and be in continuous watch- 
fulness. Initiation is not a matter of ceremonies. The most 
sublime initiatory rites ever known to man are impotent to make 
him a spiritual being. Initiation is a growth. Men cannot be 
initiated into mystics, they must become such. 

i Some seek development and wisdom for the self alone, for 
glory and for power. This is not building soul. It is the em- 
ployment of soul potency for the creation of a temporary struc- 
ture that will shortly fall, crumble to earth and be ruined by 
the first lashes of the wind and tide. The selfish self must be 
left entirely out. It is the part of the stone and timber that 
must be rehewn — transmuted into desirable material. 

We are here on earth as workmen — as builders. "In my 
Father's house are many mansions. I (the Initiator) go to 
prepare a place for you." 



62 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

We may all build a mansion which finds a place in the 
Father's house. This cannot be built by the selfish self and be 
acceptable to the divine plan. Even if God did not deny it, it 
would not fit in, because it would be out of harmony with the 
Great Scheme. 

When we have builded the house, when we have cleansed 
our thoughts, exalted our desires and finished the grand struc- 
ture; when we have lighted the fires on the Inner Altar, the 
Holy of Holies, then will the Divine Fire of heaven descend and 
mingle with the fires within. Thus descends the Holy Ghost 
and finds an abiding place within. 

Evolution and experience, though mighty urgers, are not 
always potent to develop the seeker elevatingly. Development 
is through the awakening of the inner consciousness to some- 
thing better, higher, and more desirable than that generally 
known and experienced. Experience is an expensive master 
and those who pass through this school often learn hard and 
bitter lessons. 

Not until we come to a realization of the cause of our suf- 
fering can we comprehend all that experience is trying to teach 
us. Then we may extract the good, making it a means to an 
understanding of that cause, and finally obedience to the law. 

When we fully realize that the defiance of any law brings 
inevitable punishment; that there is no escape from the penalty 
until we know the law and learn to obey it, we will take the first 
step toward development. This leads us to Illumination, the 
Consciousness of Soul. 

Experience should be of service to teach us that it is far 
better to obey the law and reap the reward, than to violate it 
and bring upon us the penalty. 



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Neither experience nor evolution can confer upon us inner 
consciousness or Illumination. Evolution governs the material 
plane of action. In the human consciousness it is knowledge 
attained through many varied experiences. 

Man may have passed through many incarnations and 
multitudes of experiences yet he may not have come into the 
realization that he possesses a soul. When the mind becomes 
negative, and builds up something contrary to the laws of the 
divine plan, man will suffer and continue to sorrow, and the 
farther he travels from the source of his being, the greater will 
be his loss and pain; though the experiences in themselves 
would never bring about his soul development or Illumination. 

Man may pass through the most terrifying experiences, yet 
these will not enlighten him, regarding the soul, its source, 
powers or method of growth. On the contrary, the thoughts, 
desires and acts, though properly termed experience, may actu- 
ally destroy the soul. 

The mind must be made positive, creative, active, con- 
structive, and hold within itself the "I Will." 

When man lives contrary to the divine law, he gradually 
develops into negativism; he becomes effeminate. Regretable as 
it is, this is the age of reverses; personalities in the form of the 
male are becoming effeminate; while other personalities in the 
shape of the female are developing masculinity.* 

Male and female were created according to the divine wis- 



*Brockton, Mass., Nov. 28, 1921. When Mrs. E. P. Plauss 
complained to Judge King yesterday that her husband had be- 
come lax in providing for his family the Judge accepted Mrs. 
Plauss' plan for solving the difficulty. 

"This was that she would go out and make a living for the 
family if her husband would stay at home, keep the house tidy 
and take care of their three children. The court ordered that 



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dom, and the Divinity has never declared the order reversed. 

Feminine mind is half of creation, and when normal, is 
the more beautiful part. The masculine is the counterpart. One 
plus one are two, the two may create in the image of their 
Creator. When the eternal law is reversed, male becomes 
plural; likewise does the female; while two can create in the 
image of the Father, the four in two spawn forth abominations, 
and this, John the Seer, foresaw and clearly indicated it in 
Revelations. 

Development of the masculine in the female destroys the 
feminine and ultimately she depraves her creative power, and 
with it she loses her soul and the possibility of Conscious In- 
dividuality. The identical law applies to the male. 

Woman is not the positive principle in nature nor is she 
the electrical pole of creation. When she begins to build the 
masculine mind she reverses the polarity of her being; she be- 
comes antagonistic both to nature and to God. 

Because of this her mind becomes magnetic, while the 
divine spark is electrical and non-receptive. The electric sphere 
cannot receive the messages and returns them back to the mind; 
these, being destructive, she builds a masculine monstrosity in 
her mentality; thus she destroys herself in becoming that which 
she is not and never can be. None may reverse the divine plan 
without paying to the "utmost farthing." 

As long as we remain peaceable and law abiding citizens 



this be done." The North American, Tuesday, November 29, 
1921. 

When newspapers publish items such as these, without 
comment, then it is certain the decadence of the race is far ad- 
vanced. The English language does not contain words sufficient- 
ly strong to permit voicing one's protest at such senility. That 
a community will permit such incidents, and allow the same to 
be published to the world, in itself clearly indicates the mor- 
ality and virile manhood of that community. When men allow 
themselves to become effeminate and women accept manhood's 
responsibility, the race is rapidly traveling towards its doom. 



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we do not suffer the penalty of the law; but when we defy the 
enactments of state, we are made to suffer. We even punish 
ourselves when we repeatedly defy the laws, for governments do 
not long permit criminals at large. 

Development may be attained, though experience has been 
able to teach us little. Jesus did not gain greatly through his 
own experience, but learned much through the experiences of 
others. When temptations came to him he possessed the knowl- 
edge of the law and listened to its behests. He understood that 
it was unnecessary to experience suffering and disappointment 
and sorrow whereby to learn to overcome. He comprehended 
this law before he was tempted. He obeyed the law by his re- 
fusal to be victimized. And this is what he taught — to know the 
law and keep it, not to disobey it and suffer. 

It is written that Jesus was tempted even as we are, yet 
was without sinning — that is, he was tempted but he did not 
accept the temptation. He comprehended that there was no real 
and lasting joy in sin. He possessed the knowledge, which he 
learned through his years of study, training and development, 
even before temptations came his way. 

Man, also, may gain knowledge of the law and thus be 
prepared for temptation; but man is arrogant. He deludes him- 
self with the thought that sin will give him experience and that 
experience brings wisdom. Admittedly this is true, but the 
value of the enlightenment thus obtained, in no wise repays the 
cost in sorrow and suffering. 

Jesus did not instruct men to sin and suffer, thereby grow- 
ing into understanding. He taught men to obey the laws and 
thus avoid the certain penalty. 

He, as other great teachers before him, clearly inculcated 
the tenet that any infringement of the law brings swift and 
inevitable punishment. Never did he teach men to defy the 
law, thereby gaining wisdom. 

Jesus did not teach that suffering brought purification. It 



66 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

does not always do so. On the contrary, he clearly indicated 
that purification saves man from suffering. It is written that 
he said: "If you drink of the waters I give you (spiritual wis- 
dom), you shall never thirst." Thus telling us that by think- 
ing, desiring, and acting in purity of thought will we be able to 
build the soul that shall live eternally. 

Some say: Jesus lived a pure life and yet suffered ex- 
ceedingly. He suffered, but not for violated laws. He was in 
anguish because he was willing to take upon himself the torment 
of others thereby enabling him to show mankind the path of 
service. There are many degrees of suffering; as many as there 
are causes for suffering. He often suffered for others, but this 
was not a loss to him; it was a gain — an investment. He was 
able to save others, but only as they were willing to obey all 
that he taught. His material death had nothing to do with their 
salvation, nor yet with our immortality, save as it points the 
way to service and obedience. He proved himself immortal; 
but this soul consciousness would have been impossible had he 
not obeyed the law and built the Immortal, Individualized 
Soul. He taught that all men may be sons of God, like unto 
himself, if they will obey God's Law, seek the Light, and bring 
the Soul into conscious manifestation. 

The sufferings undergone by Jesus were not such as many 
believed, and do now believe. Why ? Because his physical being 
had become purified; his soul exalted. His agony was chiefly 
mental. He was sorrowful because of the blindness of the many 
who might have had light but revelled in darkness. He was 
persecuted, but he suffered not because of it. He accepted it 
and his reward was great. 

In the Garden of Gethsemane he prayed for strength and 
that the cup of physical weakness might pass from him. Many 
foolishly believe that he prayed to be saved from death. That 
has no foundation in truth. If we follow the written story we 
will understand that in that hour he was in a state of physical 



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collapse. He even sweated great drops of blood. This was not 
because of fear. He was no coward. His ministry nowhere 
indicates anything of the kind. He suffered from physical 
weakness. Even in our day men have lived for weeks on 
the field of battle, subsisting on coarse foods, often on very 
little of any kind, sleeping in the open and in the storms. They 
never faltered until the battle was won; neither did they show 
signs of weakening; yet these mighty ones, when in the social 
storms, become utterly exhausted. Such an one was Marshall 
Foch during his visit in America. Social functions devitalized 
him far more than fighting night and day. 

Jesus knew that the approaching ordeal of scourging and 
confinement, together with the then current "Third Degree" of 
the jurists, would tax his strength to the utmost, and he prayed 
for the cup of physical weakness to pass that he might have the 
strength to bear all the maliciousness of self-righteous men, 
with fortitude. His appeal to high heaven brought him 
strength. 

Righteous men, aye, even criminals, have faced death and 
torture unflinchingly, therefore, it is utterly foolish for one to 
believe that Jesus would, for one moment, shrink from the 
ordeal. 

He suffered not through fear nor cowardice. His agony 
was due to physical weakness. 

Much of his suffering was due to the great pity and com- 
passion and love that he felt for the blindly foolish who could 
comprehend nothing but the material. He taught all, but only 
those who were ready and willing to accept, derived any benefit 
from his ministry. Faith is commendable, but obedience brings 
men Immortality and makes them as one with the gods. 



Our Bondage 



We cling to the old until we finally realize the utter im- 
possibility of its conformity with the new, with the requirements 
of the awakened soul. We see, despite all former darkness and 
misconceptions, that the thoughts of the mind, and the desires, 
are the moulders, the makers, the end of our destiny. When 
we comprehend the fact that we must continue in our labors and 
remain faithful to our new consciousness, if we are to attain 
illumination, we will find it less difficult to renounce all de- 
sires and loves which are destructive to body and soul, irrespec- 
tive of how desperately we clung to them previously in the de- 
lusion that they were necessities. 



Tke Soul s Awakening 

As the dawn of morning breaks with the rising of the sun, 
so will the first faint beams of truth herald the Soul's Illumina- 
tion. 

When the soul is shrouded in the dusky chambers of ignor- 
ance and deadening creeds, which lead it deeper and deeper into 
darkness and night, it is forced to hunger and thirst, groping in 
blindness of vision, longing and unsatisfied, for something liv- 
ing, real and lasting. 

The beclouded, far distant, unknowable God, orthodoxably 
taught, is not the Father that comes and dwells with us in close 
kin and companionship, after the soul's awakening. 

How is it possible for us to love that with which we may 
not come in touch — an entity too far distant and too good for us ? 

Such creeds have given us a great, stern, majestic, purely 
masculine being, one unable to accept our poor, humble, help- 
less, blundering love, irrespective of how deep and sincere it 
may be, because we, "worms of the dust," are unworthy of His 
notice and undeserving of His consideration. How is it possible 
to ever attain happiness and perfection under these conditions? 

How can we comprehend the heart of humanity — the re- 
quirements of the lowly creatures, if we turn our gaze away from 
the earth whereon dwell our fellow creatures, and keep search- 
ing among the clouds, beyond our ken for something that will 
not, cannot, respond to our woeful cry for help and relief ? 

Man has been woefully misled. He has been misguided. 
He has been induced to accept the letter and thereby lost the 
spirit. 



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The Father of all is not alone in the far-distant Empyrean 
spheres. He is also with us. 

The Creator dwells with his children, loves them and will 
protect them, but these children, long since, ceased to look for 
Him where He is to be found. 

The love of God for His creation is far greater than all 
other love and is akin to the parent's love, for God is both the 
Father and the Mother of all; therefore, as Father and Mother 
He dwells right with us — in the midst of us, and we shall see 
Him when the Soul awakens. 

We must not look away from the earth and seek among 
the clouds, to find God. If we do, we are liable to miss Him, 
for He is here with us, around us, within us. He is truly "The 
word made flesh" and dwelling among us. Only the soul's sleep 
prevents it from knowing Him. 

We all bear more or less His likeness. Some have journey- 
ed so long and among such strange gods and accepted such false 
beliefs, that they no longer resemble Him, but somewhere within 
all, it has an abiding place. It is the finer part of us. That 
which is better and nobler of us bears the likeness of God. It 
may be dim and very much blurred, possibly almost faded out, 
but the good and noble that is within, still retains the image of 
the Father. 

The earth is the body of God, just as we are the bodies of 
our souls. "As above, so below" is the Law of Hermes. The 
soul within, the spark of God is a living, pulsating, deathless 
entity when once awakened. 

The Illuminated Soul, the soul brought to Conscious In- 
dividuality, cannot die. It lives; it is in One-ness with the 
Father. 

At the moment that the soul aspires for something more 
exalted than it finds in the current dogmas, it has confessed, 
and conception has occurred; this is the acceptation of the 
Christ. 



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As it continues its search for enlightenment it begins to 
grow — it accumulates — it builds a new life; it is then born 
anew— again. 

The soul awakens, it is the child in the manger; it is at 
last, possibly after ages of dwelling in darkness, growing toward 
man's estate, — the Illumination. 

Then, as it begins to grow, to learn and to experience, it 
gradually takes on the likeness of its Creator. The Soul awaken- 
ed seeks God in all about it; nor does it lose sight of the fact 
that it is surrounded by many brothers and sisters, all children 
of the same family, or Brotherhood. 

The awakening soul grasps the greater truths as it slowly 
unfolds to the glory dwelling within itself, and becomes con- 
scious of the Fire, — that Light which is neither "on land nor 
on sea." 

Unfoldment comes gradually; it is like the blush envelop- 
ing the petals of the rose. 

Slowly, naturally, serenely the rosebud responds to the 
warm, subtle, invigorating rays of the sun. Responding, it 
yields to the sun's influence and the earth's magnetism. Sym- 
bolically speaking, within the center of the rose is the white 
light of purity. Around this, as if to shield it, is a circle of 
golden glory; while the petals borrow their crimson from the 
blending of the other colors. 

The awakened soul watches the mystery unfold and reads 
the secrets of nature with unerring accuracy. 

The soul, like the rose, courts the rays of light; seeks to 
bask in the rays of the sun's heat; utilizes the chemic rays to 
bring about changes, and is guided by the beams of its rays. 
Truth, aspiration and the love potency are inducive to the trans- 
mutation. 

Let thy soul unfold gently, slowly, naturally. Hasten not, 
and thou wilt know the secrets of thy innermost being. The 
knowledge of the ages is stored within it and the unfolding of 



72 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

the mystery will be an easy task when you have learned to de- 
cipher the scroll. 

By far too many attempt to force the unfoldment, thinking 
they can take the kingdom of heaven by storm. Impatience re- 
tards the growth of the soul, sometimes preventing it entirely, 
while mistrust is a poison certain to destroy. 

Free the mind of all that is evil, of every sensual thought. 

Instil into the mind desires that are pure and holy. 

Free the body of weakness and illness ; these are the result 
of an impure, unnatural mode of living. 

It is written: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall 
see (know) God." 

It is unnecessary to wait for an imaginary, far distant, 
universal resurrection day; — one terrible and destroying, to see 
God. 

The Soul's awakening is its resurrection day; — while the 
pure in heart, those living the exalted life, may see God daily. 
Is it not written that Job said: "In my flesh shall I see God?" 
Likewise do all see God who are noble of mind and pure in 
body; even though they yet dwell in the flesh. All flesh is of 
God, for did not the "Word, which was God, become flesh and 
dwell among us ?" Sorrowful to contemplate that the many look 
far away beyond themselves and cannot see that glory which is 
within. 

God is in the awakened soul. 

God may be in our thoughts, our minds, and in our hearts ; 
and will be there when we purify and exalt our thoughts, mak- 
ing the soul a fitting companion for the presence of the Divine. 

In our thought world we associate with the companions 
most agreeable to us just as we mingle with those we have 
chosen for friends on the physical plane. We are unable to 
hold thoughts of hatred and malice toward our fellowmen and 
be acceptable companions of the Father. 

When the individual reads the scroll of his own soul and 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 73 

has an understanding of all that he owes to himself and the 
world in general, and when he accepts his responsibilities, then 
will come peace to him. The Brotherhood of man will be at- 
tained when men universally admit their accountability and har- 
monize their thoughts, desires and actions accordingly. 

"Love thine enemy as thyself — love them that hate you," 
for "even the hypocrites know enough to love those who love 
them." 

The most exalted being in the Elysian fields cannot be 
entirely happy so long as one soul is living in sin and its 
agonies. Love is the chain that binds together all humanity, 
though many of these links may be decidedly weak. Man has 
no right to hate another even though that other would bring him 
harm; but it is not written that he must make friends with 
those who live the destructive life. 

Man must not hate another though that other may be the 
very embodiment of carnality. He may be compelled to seek the 
righteous punishment of the criminal thereby protecting his 
fellow-men, but all this must be done in justice, and for the 
welfare of the many, and not with thought of malice or hatred. 

It is written that when Jesus told his followers to "Love 
thy neighbor as thyself," they questioned': "Who is my neigh- 
bor?" The person living next door it not always neighborly, 
while sometimes friends are far distant, and this thought un- 
doubtedly came to the minds of the disciples when they asked 
the question. 

He who extends the helping hand in the time of need is the 
neighbor. Friends and neighbors are numerous when one is 
successful and has little need of favors. It is in the time of 
great necessity that we learn who is our friend and who is our 
neighbor. 

As with the man traveling Jericho's road, so with all of us 
to-day. The compassionate heart is an ever constant need, here 
and now, and with the soul's awakening is born the desire to 



74 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

benefit all mankind far and near, and to forgive others that we, 
also, may be forgiven. 

Man is ever ruled by the secret desires of his heart, and 
these are often so subtly hidden that they are unrecognized for 
many days. 

Thoughts are invisible only to the sleeping soul. They are 
frequently the betrayers — the Judas Iscariots — that stealthily 
come as a thief in the night, manifesting in ways least expected. 

The awakened soul shortly comes to know, and watch, its 
every thought. 

Undoubtedly great and constant effort is required to subdue 
the will and to think only such thoughts as we wish to think. 

The awakened soul soon acquires understanding of its 
needs, and how it may free itself of all that is ignoble and de- 
structive. 

Good and evil pass in vast processions before us. We 
recognize both — know the false from the true, the good from 
the evil. 

Thoughts clamour to be heard. The material has its re- 
quirements ; the carnal demands attention and satisfaction. 
Gradually we may gain control of our thought world, casting 
out all the undesirable and base. 

The ear must listen only to that which is fitting for the 
gods to hear. The eyes see only that which is beautiful and 
elevating and at which there is no need for angels to blush. 
The tongue speaks only words of life and power. 

Kindness becomes more than being kind; the soul's awak- 
ening bringing us full comprehension of the power of kindly 
acts. 

We cease to demand when we once begin to know. We 
then realize that receiving depends on the giving. If we offer 
but little how dare we ask for much? If the sun's rays were 
less strong and penetrating it would draw less moisture and 
magnetism from the earth. The more we give understandingly 



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and wisely, the more shall we receive. We draw to us only 
according to our power and strength to give. 

The soul's awakening confers the power to discriminate 
between good and evil, right and wrong. The awakened soul 
does not often commit error in giving love, tenderness, goodness, 
mercy and truth. We give of each, only as we ourselves possess 
it; and the most difficult of all for us to give is the self with 
which we have become so infatuated. 

Accepting the new and renouncing the old fills us with 
agony and a great melancholy seizes us as we bid farewell to 
the many illusions of the flesh that have held us in bondage for 
so long a time and had us entranced with its glamour. 

We cling to the old until we finally realize the utter im- 
possibility of its conformity with the new, with the requirements 
of the awakened soul. We see, despite all former darkness and 
misconceptions, that the thoughts of the mind, and the desires, 
are the moulders, the makers, the end of our destiny. When 
we comprehend the fact that we must continue in our labors and 
remain faithful to our new consciousness, if we are to attain 
illumination, we will find it less difficult to renounce all de- 
sires and loves which are destructive to body and soul, irrespec- 
tive of how desperately we clung to them previously in the de- 
lusion that they were necessities. 

Pain and suffering are the first warnings of the birth of a 
new life on the material plane. 

This is likewise true of births on the mental and spiritual 
planes; for we seldom change opinions, long fostered and be- 
lieved, without a struggle accompanied by sorrow and disap- 
pointment. Though we comprehend that we are giving up only 
that for which we have no further use, it appears to us like a 
sacrifice, because it has become a part of us. 

The re-birth or awakening into new life and understand- 
ing, makes its pangs of travail more deeply felt than any phy- 
sical birth possibly could, because it is difficult to mould our 



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entire being into new conditions. When the dawn is breaking 
and the understanding full upon us, when we view old beliefs 
as we would passing clouds, we will be able to hail the new 
birth, the soul's awakening, as we do the gloriously colored 
rainbow in the summer sky. 

Peace, the archangel of eternal life, will be ours after 
accepting the soul's rebirth. We will know how to truly ap- 
preciate the peace which follows the struggle. Then we will 
know what the master teacher tried so often to explain — that 
every struggle brings its full reward. We are never alone 
making the great fight. Many others are traveling the weary 
pathway, to shortly enter into peace and understanding. 

With the soul's awakening we cast aside the crown of 
thorns and accept the halo of light and understanding. We 
comprehend why men have failed, and we love them more be- 
cause we know them better. 

The awakened soul is an understanding soul. 

It comprehends that right here on earth there is a duty for 
us to perform, otherwise we would not be here. 

We entered the earth plane for a purpose. We are bound 
to earth for the accomplishment of a task. There is a divine 
reason for all that is. 

There is God's work here for us to do. It is a duty we 
owe to our fellowmen, as also to the great within. 

We must labor daily if we would continue on the way. We 
dare not turn backward. Once having accepted the responsibil- 
ity we must overcome all obstacles, otherwise the conscience, 
that voice within — our own soul, will lash us unmercifully. 

With the soul's awakening we will have become able to 
see the mote within our own eye. We will know what we have 
been and what we are. Gradually, though slowly, the darkness 
enshrouding us will fade away and the consciousness expand. 
We will recognize God's likeness in everything, everywhere. 
God's creature, man, is here creating, fulfilling, and finishing 



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his destiny; not with sighs and moans, but in sincerity, good- 
will and earnestness. 

No longer is the soul unworthy of being called the child 
of a King, for it is the conscious inheritor of all that is truly 
worth while. 

The awakened soul is happy. It is at peace in the midst 
of loss and sorrow. It speaks joy and happiness to the self- 
being and journeys onward and upward. Negative morbidness 
is cast out and the spirit of optimism enters in. 

Why should it not be so? Is it not the destiny of man? 
Why should the awakened soul not advance with a song, the 
hymn of cheer and good-will, of hope and life eternal? There 
is no lasting sorrow, pain, and certainly no death, to the awaken- 
ed, responsive, receptive soul. 



The Illuminated Soul 

The soul, awakened and illuminated, is a light that leads 
and guides him safely in the pathways of truth and righteous- 
ness. In this day so few care aught for either truth or the 
right, that it is more desirable to state that the soul attaining 
Consciousness accumulates for man health, strength and success. 

It is necessary to find the soul, to awaken it, and manifest 
it; to stand face to face with the soul and hear the voice of the 
spirit before one is truly illuminated with the light and under- 
standing. 



Illumination 

The son of man must be crucified, that is, the man of flesh 
must be changed, transmuted — regenerated — before he can at- 
tain the illumination of the soul. 

Men do not comprehend the mystery of the resurrection — 
that it is always, in whomsoever it takes place, whether in Jesus 
of Nazareth, or the humblest aspirant of the present day, the 
awakening of the mind and soul into new life and activity. 

Not until men renounce the habit of thinking material, 
fearful, doubtful, hateful, malicious and otherwise destructive 
thoughts, and begin to aspire constructively and ideally, can the 
soul be aroused and built, and thus work toward illumination. 

It is written that when Jesus' disciples looked away from 
earth and toward heaven they were able to see the divine vision 
and hear the voices proclaiming: "Ye men of Galilee, why 
stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is 
taken from you into heaven, shall so come, in like manner, as 
ye have seen him go into heaven." 

We must look upwards — elevatingly — before the soul can 
be raised. We must lift ourselves; that is, we must regenerate 
our entire being, then will the saviour, the Holy Ghost, come 
upon us, for is it not written: "for unto them that look for him 
shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." 

Salvation can come only through the process of regenera- 
tion — this is the "labor of the Christ." It is the one and only 
door into the sheepf old and it is written : "He that entereth by 
any other way, the same is a thief and a robber." 

The children of men, surrounded by illusion and living in 
delusion, believe that another than themselves can take upon 



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himself their sins and degradation and, in this manner they, 
through "salvation by faith" may be saved. They forget that 
any who attempt to enter the "kingdom of heaven," the kingdom 
within, other than by way of the door — regeneration of the self- 
being — are as thieves and robbers. 

If we seek for the Illumination — in Biblical language, — if 
we look for the Christ, then he (it) will come. The Fire will 
descend upon us in clouds of glory, and salvation will be ours. 

When we attain Christhood — Soul Consciousness — we do 
not continue to commit the sins that destroy, and without sin 
there is salvation. 

It is also written: "we have (also) a sure word of pro- 
phecy; whereupon ye do well that ye take heed (trust the wit- 
ness), as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the 
day dawns, and the star arises in your hearts." 

In this one sentence the writer stated most clearly one of 
the greatest occult mysteries. 

He who is able to read and comprehend the meaning of 
this passage has solved the mystery of the ages and if he lives 
as he understands, Soul Consciousness with the consequent 
Illumination, is assured. It is this Work that the Priesthood 
of w-Eth helps its neophytes to master. Having attained that 
"arising of the star in the heart" the aspirant is well on the 
road toward Mastership. 

It is written that Peter taught: "Ye do well that ye take 
heed." Take heed therefore for it is the light that shineth in 
dark places; and where is there greater darkness than in world- 
ly, sense loving man? It is the light that lighteth every man 
that cometh into the world provided it cleanseth the vessel 
wherein it burns so that the rays may penetrate the darkness. 

The good housewife, finding the chimney of her lamp 
darkened by smoke, does not attempt to turn the wick higher 
that she may have more light and so really create greater dark- 
ness; she washes the chimney and trims the wick, and behold, 
the light penetrates through the glass and lighteth her footsteps. 



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Thus must man do with himself. Within him is burning a 
light. The body is so gross and dense that the rays cannot 
penetrate. Turning higher the wick (believing another will save 
him) will but create greater density, greater darkness; when he 
cleanses the vessel (regenerates his being) then will the light 
shine through. 

Illumination follows the awakening of the mind and the 
building and resurrection of the soul. Its birth, its ascension, 
and its sonship, or at-one-ment with the Father is analogous 
with the birth, training and ascension of Jesus. This is true 
whether we believe or disbelieve that such a personality ever 
existed. 

The soul, awakened and illuminated, is a light that leads 
and guides him safely in the pathways of truth and righteous- 
ness. In this day so few care aught for either truth or the 
right, that it is more desirable to state that the soul attaining 
Consciousness accumulates for man health, strength and success. 

It is necessary to find the soul, to awaken it, and manifest 
it; to stand face to face with the soul and hear the voice of the 
spirit before one is truly illuminated with the light and under- 
standing. 

To the enlightened man there is but one lawgiver — it is the 
Soul having attained Consciousness, for it is then at-one, and in 
touch, with the creator of all. 

In the beginning the soul may be but the tiniest spark, but 
if man wills he can develop it into a flame, and there will be 
an aura of great glory; this is in the image and likeness of 
the Son of man. For this purpose came Jesus into the world, 
that he might demonstrate for himself and so be as an examplar, 
a Light-bearer, to all men. 

For this cause was he lifted up that he might draw all 
men unto him. 

Thus came he unto the hour of trial and passed through 
the tests, that he might himself be illuminated and thereby illus- 
trate to others the method. 



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Illumination is the light in the dark places; so expelling 
the darkness. 

It leads the soul of man away from the earthly illusions 
and opens the way to wisdom and understanding. 

The desires and lusts of the carnal self do not possess the 
gift of conferring lasting pleasure. The illuminated soul finally 
recognizes this and transmutes these desires into constructive 
ideals; for this reason does illumination confer the power to 
create — success — upon all who faithfully listen to the voice and 
who obey the law. 

Illumination is as a light in a dark room. With it, we 
can see and read. We are thereby enabled to know what we 
are about; without it we stumble and grope amid the darkness. 

Every man is at liberty to forsake those desires of the flesh 
which are destructive. He was given free will. He must make 
the choice. 

This will create war — wars in heaven and in earth — in the 
mind and the body; in the best of us as in the worst of us. 

Pure, holy, and ennobling thoughts will quickly come in 
conflict with evil, lustful thoughts. 

The aspirant has the desire to do right, but the flesh wills 
it otherwise. There is contention and strife. 

All men have had these conflicts though they may have had 
no thought of salvation, no desire for illumination. How oft 
we desire to do one act while a sense of duty indicated we should 
do just the contrary. How often have we walked the floor for 
hours, fighting, continually fighting, until wearied by the fray, 
finally either desire or duty won. This is symbolic of the con- 
flict of the seeking soul. There is war within, it is war to the 
death of one or the other. There can be no compromise. 

When the aspirant begins to develop, when the tiny spark 
within commences to awaken and attempts to penetrate the dark- 
ness, temptations and trials come thick and fast. The conflict 
is in progress; who can foretell the outcome? Is there not 



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weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth? Is it Conscious In- 
dividuality — the Illumination, or is it death and the grave? 

"Ye lust and yet have not?" 

What do we fail to have? We fail to attain the illumina- 
tion; to secure freedom from evil and from strife. It is because 
of the calls of the flesh, the carnal self, that we fail to receive. 

"Ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight 
and war, yet have not because ye ask not." 

To be able to ask wisely is to think righteously. We may 
fight and war, but we fail to reach the illumination because we 
do not constructively desire. 

The thoughts lead us. 

The soul seeks, the mind gives or creates. 

The mind builds and the soul receives. 

The soul cannot receive if the mind does not act and send 
forth the answers to the prayers of the soul. The mind must 
be a Positive, Active, Directive Force, otherwise no soul can be 
built, and Illumination be impossible. 

If the mind is lacking the strength to be successful in its 
wars and contentions with the lustful desires, then it will not 
build the Soul so that illumination follows the building. 

"Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may 
consume it upon your lusts." 

This is the desire of the selfish self. Whosoever seeks for 
illumination for self alone, cannot receive it; it is asking amiss. 
The selfish self is the creator of sinfulness and wickedness. 
None may attain Illumination of the soul and continue selfish 
and in his evil ways. 

If we gaze into a mirror we therein see the reflection of 
ourselves. It is our face, features and form; we recognize it 
whether it is pleasing to us or not. 

The soul, in like manner, reflects itself. It discloses all its 
secrets, though we foolishly believe we have kept them secure 
from the eyes of the world. 

The soul is much like a garden. A beautiful, elevating, 



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sublime thought is the seed from which spring beautiful flow- 
ers; this may be a rose, it may be a lily or a violet; whatever it 
is, the seed is capable of producing many more like seeds and 
soon there will be a garden of great beauty and wonderful fra- 
grance. The one thing to remember is that the soil must pre- 
viously be carefully prepared, that the best seed must be secured 
and planted and taken care of. This is to signify that the es- 
sence of the soul must be prepared, that the mind must be awak- 
ened so as to choose the seed, possess the energy and desire to 
plant that seed and then take care of it until it has attained 
growth and blossom. 

If but one evil thought be planted in place of the good 
and constructive, it will produce a weed, a thistle, or a thorn, 
and these will choke out the flowers and utterly destroy them 
unless the weed be quickly rooted up and cast out. 

Have you ever noticed the strength and vitality of the 
root of a weed; how hard it is to destroy? It requires much 
care and great watchfulness to keep the weeds out of the most 
carefully cultivated garden, and the thoughts of evil are as 
subtle and determined to find root in the mind and soul as are 
the weeds in a garden. The peculiarity is, that while the seeds 
of desirable plants and valuable vegetables require the utmost 
care to have them germinate and grow, weeds may be thrown 
broadcast in almost any soil and will readily grow and become 
strong. 

Selfishness is a prolific weed, it is most difficult to get 
rid of. 

It is the most subtle and illusory of all the evils man is 
heir to, because it holds the "benefit of the self" before its 
victims. 

It will lead us astray whenever we listen to its promptings. 
Its voice is ever present, telling us "thus wilt thou be benefitted 
if thou doeth thus and so." Learn to respect the self, but 
avoid becoming selfish. 

Keep guard over the tomb and watch for the coming of 



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day. The morning will bring forth the sun and the sun illum- 
inates the world. It is the life of the world. Without it all 
creatures, all plants, all living things would sicken and die. 
The sun gives the warmth and brings the rains. 

As is the sun to the world and to all creatures living therein, 
so is the soul to man. Seek the soul, watch for its awakening, 
help it by thoughts, desires and acts to attain its illumination. 

One by one man may pluck the weeds of evil thoughts from 
his mind and soul and in their place plant tender flowers of 
great beauty — of light and love; this is the conception. These 
seedlings will grow and mature and the whole world will feel 
the glow and the beauty of their presence. 

"God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all." 

"If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk 
in darkness, we lie and do not know the truth." 

"But if we walk in the Light, as he is the light, we have 
fellowship with one another." 

This does not signify that we shall be entirely free from 
the struggles with the sins and evils of the world, but it does 
indicate that if we continue faithful in our desires and live as 
closely to our ideals as we possibly can, we will gain the wisdom 
that will lead us into the light, and walking in this light, we 
attain the Illumination. 

Man may attain perfection if he so desires. He builds 
according to his ideals. As are his ideals so will he be. 

The destructive man possesses no ideals. He is steeped in 
utter selfishness. To such, humanity has no rights, deserves 
of no pity. 

He strives to attain in harmony with the cravings of his 
soul. He lives in darkness and his acts are the result of dark- 
ness. He knows not the light, therefore cannot walk in the 
light. 

No man can hate another and attain to soul illumination. 

He is in darkness, comprehends not the light, for "he that 



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saith he is in the light and hateth his brother (any man), is in 
darkness even until now." 

Hate is unto destruction. Hatred is a creator of evil; the 
producer of vibrations, and the soul harboring hate is destroy- 
ing itself. Unless this passion is eliminated from mind and 
heart, illumination is impossible. 

"He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there 
is no occasion for stumbling in him." 

Love is the light. Love is God. Love is the creator of the 
soul and it is its Illumination. Love is the vibration of life. 
He who loveth most, liveth best. 

But "he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and 
walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth, because that 
darkness hath blinded his eyes." 

Hate is blind because it cannot comprehend the relation- 
ship between man and man. All men are, in essence, brothers. 
All spring from the light and love of the Father, therefore all 
should manifest the light and love that would enshroud them 
with immortality. 

One and all manifest that which is within us. None need 
betray us, we betray ourselves continually. 

All the light we possess shines forth from us in every 
thought, word and action. Lacking the light we manifest dark- 
ness. 

We cannot reflect the Light until we learn to love and dem- 
onstrate love. Then we have overcome the world and have been 
born again. There will always be struggles; but we will have 
strength to battle successfully, and our wrestlings with the temp- 
ter will keep us from becoming weak. 

"All that is in the world, the lusts of the flesh, and the 
lusts of the ages, as the pride of life, — it is not of the Father 
but is of the world. 



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"And the world passeth away and the lust thereof; but he 
that doeth the will of God abideth forever." 

The world is in transition. He who identifies himself with 
the world and the lusts of the world, will pass on and be known 
no more. We become that which we desire. In seeking lustful 
pleasures we become lust incarnate. The thoughts we harbor 
will congregate together and become a mass of evil and destruc- 
tion. As these are but temporal, and as we are composed of 
them, we die with them. 

The mind that awakens and seeks to regenerate itself will 
think ennobling thoughts, hold exalted ideals, and work for 
reconstruction. Such a mind will arouse the soul, will implant 
elevating thoughts, and will attain illumination. It will trans- 
mute the evil within and as the process of change is consummat- 
ed, the Christ — the Conscious Soul, is born. 

"The commandment which was ordained to life, I found 
to be unto death." Through death we live. Through this death, 
or transmutation of evil, life is born anew. This is the resur- 
rection. A transforming of all evil into transfiguring love. 

The grave of the dead is the womb wherein the Illuminated 
soul arises. 

The soul is all that truly is because it is all that will live. 

The Soul: The Garden wherein thought is concentrat- 
ed — is the place of the conception of the seed. 

The Soul: The storehouse of all thoughts — and experi- 
ences. 

The Soul: The place of the accumulated experiences of 
all lives. 

The Soul : The House or Temple which the mind builds. 

The Soul: The Lamb's Book of Life. The Recording 
Angel. 

The Soul: The Sun of the body ("Rising to one's Con- 
sciousness with healing in its wings"). 



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The Soul: The womb wherein the Christ ever was, and 

ever will be, created. 
The Soul: The grave wherein undesirable thoughts are 

transmuted into goodness and potency. 
Oh, Grave, where is thy sting, for thou must give up the 
dead. Thus is the soul, my soul, as also your soul. 



Tke Soul in tke Beyond 

The world beyond the veil, the soul world, is a continuation 
of this plane of action. 

Some few people find a heaven on earth, having rended 
the veil while yet in the flesh; but generally, and to the majority, 
it seems that earth is a Gehenna. 

The Center of man's being, the soul, is finer and lighter 
than the body; it is a continual fire; intense or almost dormant, 
depending entirely upon its state of awakening. The soul is the 
sun of the body; the body is therefore the universe of the soul 
just as the sun that rises in the East and sets in the West is the 
soul of the universe, — the macrocosm. 

This body, this universe or microcosm, is the temple of the 
Soul. Man is, in fact, a complete universe within himself and 
is prototypic of the large universe. 

We have known of very wicked people living in palaces. A 
degenerated soul, black as night, often inhabits a beautiful body. 
Frequently the dwarfed incarnating soul desires the beautiful 
body as a veil; so ofttimes we find the body a shadow, a cloud, 
as it were, to hide the real. Just as frequently, a very holy and 
devout person is protected by homeliness. Abraham Lincoln 
was one of the homeliest men of his day but his soul was great, 
sublime and beautiful. When man caught a glimpse of his 
soul through his eyes they became his admirers and almost his 
slaves. He was honored, not for what he appeared to be, buf 
for what he was. The individuality continually manifested 
through the personality. Had his form and features perfectly 
reflected the greatness of his soul he might have failed in his 
mission. 



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The coarse, brutal soul is not as fine and as light as the 
developed and enlightened soul; yet there is no separate soul 
world or sphere for these to inhabit. 

The good and the evil are as able to communicate with 
each other and in the same manner that we converse with our 
opposites here in the earth life. 

At the feast of Job, evil was able to communicate with the 
good. 

The soul world beyond is but a continuation of this; only 
a veil hides it from our vision; that curtain is our own gross- 
ness. 

If souls do not change before death, they certainly will not 
be able to do so immediately after. The mind dies with the 
body and death therefore destroys the possibility of building 
that which was neglected when opportunity offered. The soul 
alone lives. It is just what the mind builded during the earth 
life, and nothing more. The evil soul, having no mind to guide 
it and reconstruct it during its term in the soul world, cannot 
possibly change one whit. The soul, whatever its state, is the 
"accumulated experience" of its previous existence and if it 
had not reached consciousness before its departure hence, must 
depend upon reincarnation to free it from its darkened, servile 
state. 

Man's chance of salvation is not in the life beyond the veil. 

It is here and now. It is written that Jesus said: "Now 
is the accepted time." 

The final judgment is when the soul crosses the threshold, 
when the curtain is drawn aside, and it stands face to face with 
itself, with its earth record, and is forced to read in the "Lamb's 
book of Life." 

The exalted, conscious, individualized soul does not attract 
the evil there any more than it does here. It looks upon the 
evil ones and would help them, yet is as helpless there as it was 
here unless the soul actually desires a change, and would be de- 
livered from the hell it had created for itself. 



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We remember what is written of Lazarus and the rich 
man — how Dives lifted up his eyes in torment and beheld 
Lazarus in heaven — in peace and beatitude. The rich man 
builded according to his thoughts and desires. In his lifetime 
he had all the good things. He fed his body well, the while he 
abused his soul. He would refuse even a crumb of bread to the 
beggar. He was clothed in purple and fine linens. He fared 
sumptuously every day. He made material things his god. He 
was selfish and hard hearted. He lacked sympathy for his less 
fortunate brethren, and as a consequence, instead of building a 
soul, he starved it. 

Lazarus was poor in all the things of the world. He had 
insufficient to eat. He lacked clothing. With it all he kept his 
soul free from malice and hatred. He kept burning the fires of 
love and sympathy. His thoughts were noble. His ideals exalt- 
ed, and his works in harmony with the creative law. He builded 
a soul. He attained sonship. He succeeded to Consciousness. 
His soul became a living entity while yet in the house of clay. 

"Why should God torment the rich man, even though he 
had been utterly selfish, while He blessed the poor?" 

God never tormented anyone. He never will. 

It is the individual soul that must weight itself by its 
deeds during the earth pilgrimage and is judged accordingly. 
Not by God, but by itself. 

The life beyond the sleep of unconsciousness is a continua- 
tion of the life here. Evil here is evil there. Construction here 
is exaltation there. The good blesses. The evil torments. Evil 
is a corroding force. It eats to the heart of that by which it 
is accursed. 

It is written that Abraham said: "There is a great gulf 
fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; 
neither can they pass to us who would come here. 

Does anyone fancy there is a wide, fixed, material gulf 
dividing the two? 

The gulf there, is the same as that here existing, between 



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the constructive and the destructive. Good here cannot and 
will not, mix with and accumulate evil; while evil is impotent 
to benefit by the good and is unable to make that which is ex- 
alted a part of itself. Only as it purifies itself and transmutes 
the degenerating forces can it attain a state of goodness. 

The soul is builded, awakened and illuminated in this life; 
here and now. 

If the soul is unable, because of its heaviness, to choose the 
good from the evil here, it cannot change in the beyond; because 
it can come into contact only with that which it itself is. It 
cannot there parade until the cover of the body, — "the veil is 
rent in twain" — the temple (body) is destroyed; the soul, the 
real self is laid bare; it stands exposed; it cannot possibly suc- 
ceed in pretending to be what it is not. 

Dives, bad as he was, desired freedom from his anguish 
and made one unselfish request; thereby indicating that he had 
not totally destroyed his soul through his selfishness. 

Our weaknesses may be considered our strongest points if 
we but use them for good. 

His weakness was the selfish self, — self-absorption and 
worldly desires. He longed for these material things to the ex- 
clusion of everything and everybody. Had his desires been as 
strong for the good as they were for the material, he might have 
been an immortal. 

Our weakness is in our strongest desire. 

Our strength is in our noblest aspiration. 

Our most intense desires govern and control us. If these 
are carnal then we gradually become gross and degenerate. 

The rich man had finally learned to understand that as he 
sowed so must he reap. He at last comprehended that he had 
not done to others as he would have had others do unto him; 
but it was too late. 

The soul he had builded had to continue just as he had 
built it until the opportunity for reincarnation would give him 
freedom to try again. Even in the soul world, after his awaken- 



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ing to the undesirability of his then status, he longed for a 
change. He desired the higher so strongly that he sought to help 
others; asking Abraham to send Lazarus to his father's house, 
that his five brothers might be informed of his mistake, of the 
undesirable soul he had builded for himself. Abraham told 
him that: "They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear 
them." 

But the rich man was not satisfied, and pleaded: "if one 
went unto them from the dead they will (surely) repent." 

Abraham answered: "If they hear not Moses and the 
prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from 
the dead."' Men cannot be forced to believe. Phenomena, 
though awe-inspiring and soul-stirring, cannot arouse a faith 
which does not exist within. Men are good, not through fear 
of consequences, but because of the birth of good within. 

The brothers of the rich man were their own creators, just 
as he before them had been. They were building souls; souls 
that would judge them at some future day, even as that of 
Dives had judged him and found him wanting. They were 
their own saviors, or their own destroyers. 

The gulf was fixed. If they sought not to change, then no 
other soul could help them, irrespective of its torment. The 
divide between good and evil is forever fixed. Good cannot 
lift and carry the evil, thereby elevating and saving it, anymore 
than evil can in any way contaminate the good. 

Though the soul in Hades, having awakened to its misery 
desires a change, it can attain it only through reincarnation. 
The soul in torment may seek to change, but cannot do so be- 
cause the mind that built it is no more, therefore, cannot undo 
that which was done and again rebuild it, any more than the 
carpenter after building a house and leaving it, could, without 
being present, dismantle the structure, alter the plans and re- 
build it. 

Reincarnation is the only relief for the soul which was 
created by the evil thoughts, desires and acts of life, as it is 



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also a necessity for all souls who have failed to attain Conscious 
Individuality. In the soul world no change can be possible — the 
mind which was the instigator and creator is no longer present. 
It is among the dead, beyond possibility of resurrection, having 
died with the body. 

In earth life the mind is the giver, the soul is the receiver. 

The mind is the creator, the soul is the created. 

The mind, like the builder of a house, ultimately dies, but 
the house stands, as the soul lives. 

The only possibility of relief for the soul is, that as desires 
for better conditions are born in itself because of its misery, 
vibrations of like nature are created, and these vibrations come 
into touch and harmonize with, minds on earth who are seeking 
reincarnating beings. 

Thus is the soul reborn and given another opportunity. 
This is symbolic even of the first incarnation when the em- 
bryonic soul left its Empyrean spheres above, and descended, 
"fell" into the earthly life. The soul itself must seek for its 
rebirth. It has again awakened to a desire for the good, be- 
cause in the earth life there must have been moments when the 
longing for consciousness was strong; but the weakness of the 
flesh overbalanced the spiritual aspiration. The desire that 
passed with him beyond the veil was at sometime created by his 
mind though he may hardly have been conscious of it. This de- 
sire was stowed away in the soul and lived in the soul; was 
possibly all that saved the soul from total extinction. 

The desires of the flesh are seemingly strong because we 
cannot see the spiritual. When we have awakened sufficiently 
to have glimpses of the soul fires, then the carnal dies — becomes 
consumed and transmuted by the fires from heaven — the soul 
flame. 

It is written : "While we are at home in the body, we are 
absent from the Lord." 

The material claims the attention and the affection of the 
mind and this takes away from the soul our thoughts and de- 



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sires. We have more love for the body than we have for the 
soul, and if someone were to tell us that we could build the 
body for eternity we would strive to do so. Why ? Because the 
things pertaining to the body give immediate pleasures and de- 
sirable sensations. 

Ponce De Leon sought many leagues for the Fountain of 
Youth; ignorant of the fact that he had it at hand. He desired 
to live. He wanted the body youthful and filled with life. 

Like him, many of us labor continually in behalf of the 
body and allow the soul to starve for want of a little considera- 
tion. How is it possible to keep it strong and virile when the 
mind and soul are gradually decaying and sending out, as well 
as receiving, currents and vibrations loaded with poisonous and 
destructive energy? 

When the soul is awakened and illuminated it is the be- 
ginning of youth. 

When the soul is allowed to die, or is destroyed, it is eternal 
death. 

No vibrations of the mind are strong and potent enough to 
revive a dead soul. It is a soul destroyed in hell — in its lusts 
and carnal desires. This is the lake of fire and brimstone. 

We term electricity a form of fire. Lightning, having 
power to burn, is a fire. Lightning is electrical. The mind 
and thoughts are electrical forces; finer than ordinary fire, in- 
visible certainly, yet fire, nevertheless. 

The lustful thoughts are consuming fires and are the fires 
of hell. Our thoughts are of fire; and the flames of the fire 
have colors. Science has demonstrated this. 

Pure, happy, elevating and exalted thoughts are the fires 
of heaven, and these fires burn out the crude and the dross and 
elevate us to the heavenly planes; heaven being a state of mind 
and soul, and to be attained only through a process of spirituali- 
zation. 

Before man can attain to this degree of refinement he must 
first pass through the other stages of growth. 



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There is the physical or material plane. This is where 
men live in the world of sensation; before the awakening of 
their mentality to anything greater. 

"The mental plane is where man has moved onward in 
progress and civilization and attains to great discoveries. Great 
mentality lifts man above the material and physical, but the 
soul may yet remain unawakened. Men of strong mentality are 
as forceful in evil as they may be for good. 

Man having passed through the purely physical realm, then 
through the mental, is ready for the spiritual — for the things of 
the Soul, of God. 

Soul is in reality God — it was sent out as a part of Him 
to accumulate good and retain it. These are the talents. 

The world of God is the world of souls. 

We are thoughts of God. Our souls are in part souls of 
God. The soul of God is the accumulated experience of all 
good. Our souls are composed of the accumulated experience, 
good and ill, of our entire existence. 

Evil cannot dwell in good or God. God does not receive 
nor retain evil, therefore evil must be cast out and destroyed — 
transmuted. As long as man or woman holds a single thought 
of good they have that much of God within themselves. 

When the soul loses all desire for good then it has destroyed 
itself. As long as there is ever so small an amount of good in 
us there is hope of casting out evil and ultimately becoming a 
part of God. "He that is least in the kingdom of heaven is 
greater than John the Baptist." John the Baptist represents 
the mental; the soul, however little developed, is yet greater 
than the greatest mind, for John the Baptist (the mind) passes 
on, but soul, unless destroyed, continues to live. 

Evil is a consuming fire. It not only consumes all with 
which it comes in touch, but it destroys itself. 

As an illustration. Gather a pile of rubbish and set fire 
to it. It burns. It is consumed. You see the pile become less 
and less, while the volume of the flames becomes greater. Where 



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does the flame go? You cannot long see it. It becomes invis- 
ible. It becomes less and less distinct. It disappears from the 
physical sight. Yet it did exist. 

When the physical organism dies and is buried what be- 
comes of it? It is consumed. It is sometimes closely confined 
in metal, or in wood. Despite this, dissolution takes place 
through the chemicalization of gases; and these, like flames, 
pass through all and come in conflict with the air, and there 
is a glow. It is the consuming of the body. 

Where does the fire go? What becomes of it? 

It is not the soul. The soul is not consumed unless it 
"burns up" itself through secret vices. 

The soul precedes the corruption of the body. It leaves 
the body, commencing with the ceasing of the heart-beats and 
is completed when all bodily warmth has disappeared. 

The soul does not see corruption with the body. 

The soul is a fire. God also is a fire; He is a "Consuming 
Fire." 

God is in all, but all is not God. 

God casts out the chaff, the snares, and the tares, at the 
moment of judgment, when the veil is rent. Very often there 
is little left of the soul after the undesirable is cast out. We 
can therefore readily understand the necessity of reincarnation 
for the imperfect soul. 

The soul world is a continuation of the physical world. It 
is the trial chamber of the souls. It is the clearing house where 
souls awaken and learn their lack; commencing their search for 
that which they have missed, or by the Law hurled into space to 
"try again." 

As an example: Here is a young girl who loves music 
with all her heart. She is endeavoring to become a perfect 
artist, making every effort to attain the mental and spiritual 
plane allowing her to express every emotion. For some reason, 
there is a weakness which cannot be overcome, and which will 
not permit her to attain the mastery of music in the present 



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incarnation. She is not dismayed despite the handicap. She 
has faith in herself and God. Though she cannot become a 
master, and may possess no knowledge of the beyond, she re- 
mains faithful to her ideal and continues the practice as stead- 
fastedly as though she were assured of ultimate success. She 
has decided — concentrated her mind — that she will succeed as 
far as she can, leaving the rest to God. Thus she continues 
unto the end. 

Time passes. The body is laid aside. Her soul enters the 
Beyond. There she awakens to the fact that life is merely a 
continuation, an endless chain. She soon is aware of one 
change; she has thrown aside the body and many of its impedi- 
ments. The soul is free. It can hear the music in its perfec- 
tion. There is much to overcome. Of this the soul is soon made 
aware. The desire for music becomes strong. The soul inves- 
tigates. It finds that, not having attained mastery, it must 
seek a sphere of action. It also learns that other conditions of 
the personality had not been overcome. 

The soul is free. It lives in its desire. All else than music 
is without charm. What is it to do? The knowledge comes. It 
learns that it may return to the earth plane. That it may be 
drawn to those on earth who love music, and who, bearing child- 
ren, would give them every advantage in the sphere of music. 

The soul's love for music creates the vibrations of music. 
These are the forces attracting it to the lovers of music on 
earth. It is drawn to them. The time for the birth of a new 
being arrives. The soul hovers near. With the first breath of 
the new born child the soul enters. It has found its opportun- 
ity — mastery will be attained. 

Thus it is with the poet. 

The artist is governed by the same law. 

All — each and every one of us may attain the mastery if 
we truly desire. 

As we would build now, so will we be in the beyond. We 
merely continue. If we are lacking in desire, if no great emotion. 



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sways us, then we will be under conflicting forces in the soul 
world, and reincarnation will be governed by the stronger 
vibration. 

A great work is done when the soul, here and now, has 
selected its desire and has decided upon it forever beyond the 
shadow of doubt. Such a soul will reach immortality. It will 
attain its aspiration. 

The strongest desire of the mind will build itself into the 
soul and become the substance of the soul. This specific qual- 
ity of the soul becomes the magnetic force that attracts to us in 
this life and in the next the means and power of realizing this 
desire; becoming a propelling force. 
. — Desire one thing and work in harmony with the longing. 

This great, irrevocable law governs in all things, whether 
our desire be for music, art or soul culture. Whether we be 
lovers of flowers, architecture, sculpture or world dominion. All 
is controlled by the law of vibratory force. 

Were I to desire great beauty and perfection of form, I 
should hold this constantly in mind. I would work unceasing- 
ly with that end in view. I would obey the most perfect rules 
for development of person and the culture of beauty, and con- 
tinue until death. This desire would have charged the soul with 
these vibrations. It would govern the soul in the beyond. The 
magnetic forces thus stored in the soul would draw it to the 
proper parents, such as could help it in every manner to attain 
its ends. 

The soul in the beyond is only what we make it here. 
After it reaches the soul-realm it cannot think, cannot plan, 
cannot build (unless it had reached perfection). It is merely a 
soul, as yet unilluminated. Its attracting power is that with 
which it was invested while on earth. 

Take the opposite illustration : the ordinary material, carnal 
man. He lives in a sphere of opportunity but he has no special 
aim in life except possibly to make money and enjoy himself. 
He is not totally evil; he is merely more or less selfish, but not 



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sufficiently so to destroy the soul. He finishes his earth career 
and passes to the beyond. In earth life he had not sought 
knowledge of the soul ; had made no effort to awaken the spirit- 
ual self, or to build a soul. When he awakens beyond the veil, 
his soul is more material than spiritual; he is in darkness; 
knows not where to turn: "Behold, their last estate is worse 
than their first." 

The soul is spiritual in its nature even though it is material 
and has become more or less evil. This soul, weighted down 
with worldly desires, is actually in the soul world — a spiritual 
sphere — yet truly it is in hell. It continues groping in dark- 
ness, possibly for centuries, until it gradually throws off the 
earthly vibrations; then flying in space, without the power of 
direction or selection, it is at last, through its own vibrations, 
drawn to those through whom it may reincarnate. Necessarily 
the conditions under which such a darkened soul can incarnate 
are always gross and undesirable. 

The builder of a soul is much like the engineer of a rail- 
road who is constructing under peculiar conditions. Let us 
consider this engineer as having the contract to build in a circle 
and covering two States. In the first part of his territory he 
may lay his rails and run his trains, but in the second, the 
one which completes his circle, he may merely lay his tracks 
but must not run for a certain time. After the lapse of time 
the restriction is removed and he starts his train at a given 
point. He follows the track, taking a passenger here, discharg- 
ing one there, until ultimately the train returns to the starting 
point. 

The builder of the soul constructs in a known territory — the 
mundane plane. If he has one certain desire, then while he is 
laboring here he is actually constructing a track — circular — into 
the beyond. When the restriction is removed, — when death 
claims him, the veil is lifted; he finds that his path is prepared 
for him; that the power is given to his soul — because of the 



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charging of his soul with a certain desire during life — to pro- 
ceed. He continues on his way, in a circle, until he again 
reaches the border line, but now it is on the return from the 
beyond. He finds his soul still charged with certain vibrations 
(desires) and the potency of these vibrations is such that he, 
his soul, will be drawn to parents who can, and will, give him 
every opportunity to complete the work commenced in the 
previous incarnation. 

You can be that which you want to be, whether it be an 
artist, a musician, a statesman, a sculptor, an architect, a gen- 
eral, a millionaire or a world savior. Your success even in this 
life may be wondrously great, and the ultimate attained in the 
next; aye, possibly even in this for no man may know how 
much he actually has accomplished in the past. 

One Desire — One Love. 

We desire that which we love. 

The soul — consciousness manifesting the "rhythmic expres- 
sion of beautiful thoughts." 



The Awakened Soul 

The soul, awakened and illuminated, is a light that leads 
and guides him safely in the pathways of truth and righteous- 
ness. In this day so few care aught for either truth or the 
right, that it is more desirable to state that the soul attaining 
Consciousness accumulates for man health, strength and success. 

It is necessary to find the soul, to awaken it, and manifest 
it; to stand face to face with the soul and hear the voice of the 
spirit before one is truly illuminated with the light and under- 
standing. 



Coming of Ckrist 



It is written that the disciples said unto Jesus: "What 
shall be the sign of thy coming?" 

The master teacher answered: "Let no man deceive you. 
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and 
shall deceive the many." 

It must be confusing to the theologian, who is also a 
thinker, that if Jesus was to have been the only Christ, he 
should have answered in this manner. "What shall be the sign 
of thy coming?" He was with them, dwelt among them, what 
then lead his disciples to thus question him? Consider care- 
fully his answer! If he was the Christ, and if there were to be 
none other like him, how was it possible for them to have even 
an idea that he should come again, or any like him should 
come after him? 

The question and its answer, clearly indicate that Jesus 
was come, not to act as the forgiver of sins, but as the examplar, 
the one illustrating to all mankind the Way. He it was that 
had been given the task of living the Regenerative life, the 
while teaching the method to all. To him was allotted the task 
of transmuting the gross, carnal physical being into the glorious 
temple manifesting the Christ. 

Already during his life and ministry his followers were 
inculcating the idea that he was come to be temporal ruler of 
the Jews and also the forgiver of the sins of the people; taking 
upon himself their evils through a vicarious atonement; and one 
can readily imagine the people as being only too willing to have 
him take upon himself their responsibilities, the while showing 
them the way to a future existence free from all labors and sor- 
rows of life. 



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"Many of them shall come saying, I am the Christ." Truly 
his prophecy has been amply fulfilled. This has been possible 
because of the miscomprehension of all that Christhood truly 
means. 

Leaders in psychological circles have continually predicted 
that as the world (the people collectively) reach different de- 
grees of growth, experiences, or degradations, a Messiah or great 
teacher comes forth from the silent nowhere, to demonstrate the 
truth and the Christ. Unquestionably this has always been so. 
Some of the self-appointed leaders of the present day have had 
the arrogance and presumption to select earth born mortals, 
training, and in many instances, degrading them by unspeakable 
practices, then attempting to palm these off on a gullible people 
as the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth, — of him who had 
demonstrated Conscious Individuality and Immortality. 

Such fraud and pretence would seem to be utterly unac- 
ceptable to the people of an advanced, enlightened, so-called 
civilized age. The fact that millions have actually allowed 
themselves to be duped and deluded by the mere claim of men 
and women who had actually confessed their guilt of body and 
soul destroying vices, clearly indicates how anxious are the 
denizens of this mundane plane for some one to come and lift 
from their shoulders individual responsibility, and to set aside 
for their special benefit the Law of Compensation. 

Christ comes to all men just as soon as they begin to live 
the enlightened, regenerative life. He comes sans claim and 
sans profession. He comes as a "thief in the night," but with 
a willingness to bear all the burdens and responsibilities of 
every thought and desire ever born in the mind, and every act 
instigated by the unregenerate mentality. 

Christ is the Light. He is as the Fires from heaven. He 
is withm every man, but not every man is willing to roll away 
the stone which imprisons him, thus allowing him to arise. 

Christ is made flesh every time a mortal is born, but with 
each day a heavier weight is rolled upon the grave (center) 



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wherein he dwells until by the time the mortal attains manhood 
or womanhood all the debris of the world (carnal thoughts, de- 
sires and acts) has been deposited on his abiding place and it 
is become almost impossible for him to be resurrected. 

Creation is of the mind and is conceived by the soul. The 
soul is the womb, receptive to the acts of the mind. The soul 
receives all the ideas, the thoughts, and the desires created or 
produced by the mind. Each thought, idea, desire, or ideal im- 
pregnates the soul and is potent either for construction or de- 
struction. The immaculate Conception takes place the moment 
man awakens to the futility of the carnal life and consecrates 
his future to the task of attaining Conscious Individuality. 

The truths taught and demonstrated by Jesus were not of 
new ideas he had discovered and claimed as his own by divine 
right. The tenets taught by him were as old as the world in 
which he lived and labored. For it is written: "Earth was 
without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the 
deep. And the Spirit (Soul) of God moved upon the face of 
the waters." 

Further: "Before Abraham was, I am." The soul was 
created before there was even a place for a body to exist. It 
was one of the same souls which incarnated as Jesus and attain- 
ed Individual Consciousness, thereby empowering it to teach, 
and to demonstrate, the everlasting truth which enables men to 
discontinue the life of carnality and death, and travel the path 
leading to Immortality. 

Reading the Biblical narrative understandingly, we must 
conclude that Jesus had not attained perfect poise and evolve- 
ment in his former incarnations. There was a stage of develop- 
ment and power which he required, to complete the soul and it 
was for this purpose that he elected to return to another incar- 
nation, there to fulfil his destiny in so far as he personally was 
concerned and at the same time to serve as an examplar for 
humankind generally. 

Not unlike other seekers of his age and time, he studied. 



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He was trained by the masters. He became learned in all the 
laws. He also was tempted and tested, which proves that he 
was much as were other men. 

His last words upon the cross; "It is finished," clearly in- 
dicates that he had finally overcome all the desires of the flesh. 
He had succeeded in purifying the body until it hacT become a 
fitting dwelling place for an exalted soul. His soul he had per- 
fected; so purified and cleansed it by the exaltation of his 
thoughts and desires, that through the medium of his material 
body he was enabled to demonstrate the power of the illuminated 
soul. 

Like as with him, our bodies reflect the soul within. When 
the body is maimed or halt or deficient in strength and develop- 
ment, it reveals one of two things, sometimes both; either what 
our former life had been or what the life now is. 

Christ never was a man, nor a person. Right here is where 
the multitudes fall into serious and benumbing error; failing to 
grasp the true meaning of the much-abused term. Christ is the 
Illuminated Soul, — the Consciousness becomes Individualized. 
Christ is the divine spark within man, having become awakened 
and conscious, possessing a knowledge of its relationship with 
God, — not a belief or faith, but an actual knowledge. Jesus, 
born of woman, was an earthly being, even, as you and I, but 
who so lived as to enable him to demonstrate the power, the 
perfection, and the certainty of this knowledge of his relation- 
ship with the Creator of humanity — the All Father. 

Undoubtedly there are great souls who come to earth now 
and again who have attained Conscious Individuality in a past 
incarnation. These, after their earth labors and final transition 
to the empyrean spheres, are called the Christs, the Messiahs, 
the Masters, and Initiates; but these do not come with much 
noise, nor with the blare of trumpets, nor are they heralded to 
the world by the vice-steeped, self-appointed leaders of the 
blind. More often they are, for long years, the lonely, shunned, 
much-maligned workers who are continually trying to help 



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humanity to help itself. Their knowledge does not permit them 
to claim divinity or greatness for themselves and they finally 
become recognized because of the attainment of a personality 
and an individuality which withstands all gossip, all hatred, all 
malice, all attempts to bring ruin and every form of persecution 
upon them. 

These souls are Christs, they have allowed nothing to in- 
terfere with their exalted ideals. They did not permit slander 
to bring them sorrow, nor persecutions to embitter their hours 
of day and night, and cause them loss. Despite all, they have 
continued in the path suggested by the inner consciousness and 
ultimately have brought the Soul to Illumination. 

The Jesus of sacred history who had attained Christhood 
and was thereby enabled to teach and minister to the multitude, 
had been receptive to and baptized with, the Holy Ghost — the 
Fire from heaven. Thus may all be surrounded by the halo of 
divine Light if they have the strength and the courage to rend 
the veil of the temple, which is but saying; if they will live the 
life and gradually purify the body, they will thus enable the 
awakened Soul to manifest through it. 

What is the Christ? 

The Soul becoming Christie is truly the Son of God. It is 
also the consciousness, in the mind, of possessing a soul. It is 
moreover, the absolute knowledge, not mere belief or faith, mind 
you, of having a soul. Furthermore, it is the knowledge of 
where that Soul centers within — aye, even of visionalizing that 
soul, seeing it visibly reflected as we see our person in the 
mirror. 

It is written that John said "God is Love." Then the 
Soul of God, or the universal Christ, must be love. When we 
develop the Christos, then we unfold the screen of love. 

Through the accumulation of good, that is to say, by think- 
ing of all that is good, desiring everything that is good, and 
trying to do good, we gradually become one with God, and 
therefore part of Him; thus placing us in sonship with Him; 



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just as when we commence to deposit money in the bank, con- 
tinuing to do so until our accumulations therein are equal with 
those of the heaviest depositors, so we become as one with them, 
and may even have an equal voice in the management. 

It is written that Jesus said: "Take heed that no man de- 
ceive you; for many (men — in this man-oglamic age, women 
also) shall come in my name saying, I am Christ; and shall 
deceive many. 

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,, 
and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that if it 
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 

"Wherefore, if they say unto you, Behold, he is in the, 
desert, go not forth; Behold, he is in the secret chambers, be- 
lieve not. 

"For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth 
even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the son of 
man be." 

In other words, he who claims to be the Christ, be it man 
or woman, is a deceiver, not to use a stronger word. Christ is 
not a person, but a power, a potency, a spiritual being which 
must be awakened and developed in each person who would be 
saved — Immortalized. 

It is all very plain; all very simple, so much so that "a 
fool cannot err therein." Christ does not appear to man accom- 
panied by great signs and wonders; but as by lightning, be- 
cause it is the Illumination, the Holy Ghost always being as in 
Fire. Jesus, centuries since, told his hearers that only the 
"hypocrites look for a sign." The Soul of God, which is the 
Christ, comes not with phenomena, nor in wonders which the 
physical eye can behold, but as the lightning cometh, by illum- 
inating the darkness of the mortal mind. 

As the lightning of the storm flashes across the clouded, 
storm-swept sky and illuminates the vast darkness with positive 
force and light, so cometh the illumination of the soul when the 
mind has been purified and has developed the Christ within the 



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Soul-sphere, and none but those who have accomplished this 
work can be Immortal, for it is written-. "Verily, verily I say 
unto you, except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom 
of God." 

Lightning illustrates illumination. 

There can be no lightning unless there is an intensity and 
an accumulation of body. In the body there are forces, there 
is darkness. When the forces are accumulated and purified, 
then illumination follows. 

What is it to see, or enter, the kingdom of heaven? 

Heaven is an attitude. It is a state of mind. 

It is an ennobled, purified, at-peace with self and the world . 
condition of the mentality. 

There are to-day many self-constituted leaders who claim 
to know where the Messiah of the ages is in preparation to dem- 
onstrate to the world his sonship with God.* Some say he is in 
the deserts of Arabia, or Persia, while others proclaim him to 
be in the secret schools of the occult, in India. 

However, to contradict all these proclamations, it is writ- 
ten that Jesus said he is the illumination of the darkened in- 
terior of man, as also of a darkened world; that finally when 
the heavens are darkened and without light, when even the pure 
minds are darkened and shaken by false beliefs, christs and 
prophets, then "shall appear the sign of the son of Man in the 
heavens." 

"Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn" — all that is 
of the earth, the earthly loves and desires, the longings of the 
flesh, the lusts of the self, shall mourn, for with the illumina- 
tion, the lustful earthly desires are destroyed, and then "these 



♦Since the publication of the first edition of this book many 
of those who arrogantly proclaimed themselves as world saviors, 
the incarnation of Jesus, or contended they were training the 
coming Christ, have been exposed as frauds, have admitted 
themselves as such; notably among these is the young Hindoo 
then being educated at Oxford. 



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shall see the Son (Soul) of man coming in the clouds of heaven 
with power and in great glory." 

"And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a 
trumpet." The understanding and awakening to truth is here 
symbolized. The trumpet is the spirit of Light. Angels are the 
awakening of ideas, thoughts, desires, in the Soul. These always 
come, as would the sound of a trumpet — with a shock. There 
are no signs of wonders until after illumination. Nothing of 
the Christ or soul is manifested to the physical or material. 
With the illumination comes the Christ, for this is the Conscious- 
ness of an immortal Individuality. This comes to all alike; — 
not in the external, but in the innermost being. 

No one may be aware when the souls of men are awakened; 
only the Father and the Son, the Soul within, may know. 

"Heaven and earth (mind and flesh) shall pass away, but 
my word (the plan of soul awakening and immortalization) 
shall not pass away. 

"Therefore, be ye ready, for in such an hour as ye think 
not, the son of man cometh." 

"Watch, therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord 
shall come." 

Prepare the mind, purify the soul. Cleanse the mind so 
that it will think clean thoughts, hold exalted ideals, and dictate 
works for the welfare of all. This will build the Soul. Be 
prepared ; none may know when the Soul is to receive its illum- 
ination, its baptism by the Holy Ghost — the descending of the 
Illuminating Fire from Heaven. 

In the beginning of time the souls of men were with God 
and were spiritual. They were unembodied. When souls took 
upon themselves bodies of flesh they no longer remained all- 
good. As a consequence all men must now work upwards 
toward perfection just as they fell downward into imperfection. 

The soul, coming to know desire, was made flesh and dwelt 
among earth beings; — then the flesh no longer knew the soul. 

But the soul, though steeped in rubbish and carnality, feels 



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a lack; knows there is something missing, and that it may find 
that which was lost. This illustrates the search for the Holy 
Grail. 

The desire of man is the Word, this may be good or evil. 
A word is a thought. The Word of God was the thought held 
by Him. The thought of God became flesh. God is in the soul 
and the soul accumulates all thoughts. Our bodies are the re- 
flection or likeness of the soul. We are the image of our souls. 
The universe, and all within it, is the accumulated thought of 
God — His body, image, reflection, and life. A desire is a 
thought. Thoughts become souls. The thought of God is the 
Word. The Word is the desire. The desire is soul. 

The flesh does not know, cannot recognize the soul. The 
flesh never knows that the soul overshadows it until soul recog- 
nizes itself and commands obedience of the flesh and its desires. 
No man is in any secret place, in any monastery, or in the desert 
preparing to become the Christ. This preparation may be un- 
dertaken anywhere, in any place. It is the work of becoming 
ready to receive the illumination and to come into an under- 
standing of Conscious Individuality, which is Immortality or 
salvation of soul. This is the illumination of the mind, the 
purification of the body. No man may know the hour when the 
Holy Ghost descends. 

This is the coming of the Christ, the bearer of peace and 
good-will to all men. 

We may not see God (our Soul) at any time unless we are 
begotten (born again) of God. Development of the Soul en- 
ables us to see and know God through the medium of the Fire 
of the Holy Ghost — this is the Holy Grail which shall appear 
to all men who obey the Divine Law. 

John, the representative, or symbolic expression of water 
or mind, is the forerunner; — he who goeth before men showing 
them the way. Mind conveys an idea to the soul and the soul 
accepts and absorbs the idea just as the carpenter (builder) 
accepts the stone or the piece of lumber and builds it into place 



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to help form the structure upon which he is engaged. The idea 
is transmuted into substance and the substance is one part of the 
soul ; — becoming the greater or lesser part according to the force 
of the thoughts and desires to follow; all ideas in harmony with 
it helping to build the Soul. 

The first thoughts and ideas for truth (the annunciation) 
for something tangible and beyond the vague or superstitious, 
are followed with a desire to know and investigate (conception) 
laws not heretofore known. In this way we are awakened 
(born) to the fact that the doctrines and regulations of men 
seldom explain the truth, except in an intenable way, and in 
contradiction and antagonism toward all who refuse to accept 
their materialistic or subjective views. 

Conception is the planting and the receiving of the seed. 
When conception occurs, the germ of a new life, either in the 
material or spiritual, is sown. The soul is the receiver; — the 
moulder. It moulds the thought of the mind into spiritual sub- 
stance whose life is a Fire. 

Mary, the mother of Jesus, gave the world a son conceived 
and born in the knowledge and power of the Holy Ghost, not 
due to any peculiarity of the conception, but because she had 
been prepared. Jesus was conceived and born as others before 
him except that Mary understood the mystery which all may 
know. Her knowledge and obedience to truth gave her son the 
opportunity to commence the "Great Work" in his youth; but is 
the only advantage he possessed over other men of that or this 
age. 

Peace results only from harmony. Peace does not dwell in 
chaos, contradiction, and antagonism. The conception of the 
truth, the birth of the Soul, and the attainment of Conscious 
Individuality brings peace on earth and good-will to all. 

Seek the peace that passeth understanding. 



Atonement 

Atonement betokens reconciliation. It is indicative of a 
return, a becoming at-one, with the Source of Being. 

Because of his ignorance and conceit, man lost touch with 
the Creator. Man's evil thoughts, desires and degenerative 
practices made of him a defiled, — an unfit dwelling place and 
the Father found it undesirable as a residence. Man sought in 
the flesh to satisfy all his longings, while at the same time he 
seeks for heaven in a vague, visionary sphere above the clouds. 

For ages people had been wandering farther and farther 
away from the one true knowable, but unknown God. Jesus 
like other Avatars before him, undertook to turn them from their 
delusions, and to bring them to an understanding and realiza- 
tion of the Father and His laws. 

"Man knew (of) God but glorified him not as God, neither 
were they thankful; but became vain in their imagination and 
their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be 
wise, they became fools. 

"And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an 
image made like to corruptible man, and to birds and four- 
footed beasts and creeping things." 

Man's mistake was, and yet is, in attempting to make God 
in the likeness of himself; a personal being filled with anger, 
jealousy, revenge, and demanding life and blood to appease His 
anger and His wrath. 

Little wonder man strayed far away from the real God, 
finally losing even the vague image of Him which easily could 
have been retained in his heart of hearts. 

Men frequently take upon themselves what they foolishly 
believe to be the power and speech of God and demand of those 
weaker than themselves, obedience and reverence to opinions, 



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traditions, and theories more illogical and degrading than any 
heathen, so-called, ever believed or taught. Thus do they claim 
for themselves equality with God and usurp His throne. 

Who, being sane and sensible, could love a God that would 
consent and encourage mankind to pillage, kill and torture 
helpless men, women and children? (*) What manner of God 



*To-day, December first, 1921, as the above is penned we see 
illustrated hourly, through the medium of the press, the incon- 
sistency of the age. 

On the one hand we have representative men from all coun- 
tries meeting at Washington in an attempt to reduce the armies 
and navies, thinking that by so doing future wars may be avoid- 
ed, irrespective of the fact that no attempt is made to instruct 
men in the absolute law and so somewhat modify their warlike 
nature. 

On the other hand we find the widely advertised campaign 
for the relief of the Near East sufferers. No effort is made to 
find the primary cause for the distress and misfortune of these 
people. The so-called Christian world, through its missionaries, 
has converted the nation of Armenians, but in doing this and 
thus making them legitimate victims, according to the Moslem 
religion, of the Turks, they have given them no protection. They 
are being converted to be butchered. To-day, when such out- 
rages have been committed by the Turks, without interference 
by those who should be, and must be in the sight of God, protectors 
of those whom they exposed, they are collecting millions to feed 
and bring to maturity the hundreds of thousands of Armenian 
children whose parents were slaughtered, and for what purpose? 
That they may be enslaved, degraded and victimized by the Turk 
as were their parents before them. 

If there is a God, and we know there is, then surely He must 
be sitting upon His throne and weeping at the imbecility of those 
who think themselves wise, converting millions from one relig- 
ious faith to another, then allowing those whom they have so 
converted to be massacred in a manner such as never attempt- 
ed in the slaughter-houses of animals. 

We spend millions in an attempt to disarm, the while nations 
are decimating other nations in cold blood and without provoca- 
tion. We collect money and feed millions, that these may be- 
come the prey of the hordes of satan, and we claim to be fol- 
lowers of God's vice-gerents. 

To make war impossible is a glorious dream. To reduce the 
burden of taxation now dragging the poor into the dust is a 
glorious vision, but neither of these are possible so long as men 
convert other men from one religious belief to another and then 
allow such to be debauched and victimized; "Professing them,- 
selves to be wise, they became fools." 



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could appear to men as Love, saying: "Worship thou me with 
all thy heart, and with all thy soul (in thought, desire and 
deed)," and "thou shalt have no other God before me," and 
then command them to murder, rape and destroy others of His 
children because these interpreted His commands differently? 

God created and loved all souls, and does not go out to 
battle against His sons and daughters, distributing favors and 
blessings on one side regardless of worthiness or wisdom, and 
torment, carnage and destruction on the other. God neither 
distributes favors nor does He punish. It is the thought, desire 
and action of men, which condemn them or bless them; for: 
"according to thy faith, and works, so be it unto you." 

God created souls. He allowed them to "fall" and take 
upon themselves bodies. He created Laws. If man attempts 
to evade these absolute and unchangeable fiats he creates a re- 
action and it is through the rebound that he is punished — by 
himself. God has nothing to do with the punishment. 

Is God ever violent and unmerciful? 

Never! The hateful, revengeful, malicious God held dang- 
ling before us like a Punch, is man-made, "made into an image 
like unto corruptible man." He is not the Father who was the 
Creator of all that is, not the God to whom we should become 
reconciled by making the Atonement. 

Man to-day, like the Jews of old, look for a king to rule 
over them with judgment and wisdom; provided, this agrees 
with their own ideas of what is wisdom and what is good judg- 
ment. Men want the "other fellow" severely judged, but expect 
their own weaknesses to be overlooked and entirely forgiven. 

"Professing to be wise, they became fools," and their 
"foolish hearts are still more darkened." They are beclouded 
and misled, not by God, but by their own thoughts, desires and 
acts; always going farther and farther away from the source of 
being; making the possibility of their At-one-ment constantly 
more and more difficult. 

The soul of man w?ts made (created) in the image or like- 



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ness of his Creator — God. After man became dissatisfied, and 
at the moment he descended into the house of clay, he was given 
a mind, — the power to reason and to create. The mind of man 
then became a creator; also a destroyer, and man is now an exact 
image of — his own thoughts and desires. 

God is incorruptible. He becomes corruptible only in the 
thoughts of man. Man has attempted to make God in his own 
little, deformed, degraded image. He must now commence to 
create, or rebuild, himself in the glorious image of God; ceasing 
for all times to endeavor to draw down and fill God with his own 
desires, lusts and weaknesses. 

A carnal, lustful, violent man cannot think of a God 
greater than his own ideas, thoughts, and desires. People liv- 
ing in an age of passion and degradation must reasonably be 
expected to believe in a violent and warring God as their Crea- 
tor, Leader and Savior. In their limited intelligence, God can 
only attain the height and likeness of themselves. 

Above the masses are the selected few, the thinkers. Among 
these may be, and often are, soldiers who war successfully. 
These have become conscious of the knowledge of God. They 
have reached At-one-ment with the Father. They battle, not 
because they believe that God sanctions destruction, or that He 
is the Host of their army. They know that to kill is evil, but 
they are also aware that they are fighting for the right; for the 
protection of the innocent, — they choose the lesser of two evils. 
In their souls is the understanding that if they did not so fight 
and subdue the malicious hordes battling against them, these 
human demons would bring greater destruction and degradation 
upon the people. 

Man continually follows his own ideas, thoughts and de- 
sires, foolishly believing that he is obeying the will of God. 
Through his unenlightened intellect he is led away from the one 
true source of good. 

In every age man has fostered upon future generations his 
personal conception of God. The Jews looked for a king to fnje. 



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them from bondage and to rule them. They continue to expect 
such an one. Their conception of Jesus, as of Osiris before him, 
was as an earthly king. These failing them, they are hoping 
of the future to bring them one. 

The Christian peoples, so-called, have shown no greater 
wisdom. They have taken the philosophical Jesus and twisted 
the Christos which he taught and demonstrated, into an "image 
like unto corruptible man," giving to the Spiritual Entity the 
image and personality of man, while attempting to make of this 
creature the burden bearer of their degradations. 

They have compounded a substitute god; cruel, heartless, 
and unjust, and worship him as the ruler of the universe. They 
believe him to be living in a far-off sphere where they maintain 
few will be acceptable; all the multitudes of others being damned 
and destroyed because these multitudes will not accept their 
composite creature. 

In one breath they inform us that God is Love, Mercy, 
Truth, Justice and Compassion. In the next, that he will burn- 
up, totally destroy, all the souls who refuse to bend the knee and 
"loudly praise before men" this being. They preach lengthily 
on the fear fulness of a "lake of fire and brimstone" totally 
ignorant that this is borrowed from the heathens whom they hope 
to convert. 

They worship a being whom they have never seen and 
whom they should not expect to see, for how can a "worm of the 
dust" ever hope to stand in the presence of the All- Creator? 
How can one who undertakes nothing for himself, depending 
entirely on "salvation by faith" expect to attain Sonship — the 
At-one-ment with the Father? 

Under such conditions it is hardly strange that man has 
gradually, but steadily, drifted away from God and His wisdom, 
instead of being drawn toward Him and so become At-one with 
Him? 

The mission of Jesus, as of all teachers before him who 
had attained Oneness, was to help man restore himself to his 



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rightful place; to bring him back to knowledge and understand- 
ing; to show him how he might lift himself from the "worm of 
the dust" stage into virile manhood, finally into One-ness with 
the One from whom he had come. 

The conception of the Christ is entirely different and dis- 
tinct from that of the Jesus of the Church. One is the man 
of flesh and sorrow while the other is the Conscious Individual- 
ization of the Divine Spark within the personality. 

Christ never was a man, — a personality. 

The Christos is not, and never was, nor ever can be, an 
image like unto corruptible man." 

Christ is the awakened soul, — its Conscious Individualiza- 
tion; the becoming At-one of the entire man. with the Godhead. 

When man begins to comprehend the Christ, he will then 
have an insight of what it is to become fully conscious; this is 
the forerunner of the consummation of One-ness. 

Instead of continually drifting farther out on the sea of 
darkness, away from anchorage and safety, he will turn and be- 
come reconciled to the Father, his Creator, and thereby reach an 
At-one-ment with his own soul. He will, through this building 
of the individuality, become a part of, and one, with the Father, 
though retaining his personal identity. 

The Christ is the true, the living conception of the immortal, 
Consciously Individualized Soul. 

Men exclaim: Organized churchism teaches "the Christ, 
the truth, and the way." 

We have no quarrel with the church, nor with any other 
organization which has at heart the welfare of men. The 
church, all churches, are absolutely necessary for the control of 
men; but what of the Christ ? 

Have any ever taught that Christ was other than a peculiar- 
ly born, especially cared for, divine being? That through be- 
lief in him men might be saved at the eleventh hour, irrespec- 
tive of their mode of living or of the degradation which they 
might have brought upon many? Have they ever taught — 



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harmonious with the inculcations voiced by Jesus — that all men 
may become Christs; that within every true man there is an 
embryonic Christos waiting to be awakened and to manifest as 
a savior? Have they ever instructed the masses that their 
thoughts, desires and consequent actions might awaken and 
develop a Christ within themselves, so making them potent for 
good instead of remaining weaklings, leaning upon another for 
the salvation of their often worthless, and darkened, souls? 

Thoughts, ideas and desires, these followed by works, build 
the soul and bring it to At-one-ment with the Father. 

In every chapter of this book is taught and explained that 
the soul is builded, formed, moulded and created by the thoughts, 
desires and ideas of the mind. Likewise, every book of the 
Bible is the story of the creation, the "fall," and the re-creation 
of the soul of man through his own personal efforts. 

Every soul that is to continue its existence must be built 
by the mind. The soul is invisible to the physical eye until the 
material self has become regenerated through an exalted life. 
Every person desiring to know his own soul, aye, even to see it, 
can do so if he is willing to so live the life that makes this 
possible. The Will to do. This is the key to life as it is to Im- 
mortality — the One-ness of the human soul with the Father. 

Most of us have believed in a Christ, and to a degree have 
accepted the conceptions of the many. This is the Christ as we 
have been taught that he would appear, but "unto them that look 
for him (seeing) shall he appear the second time without sin 
unto salvation." 

"Without sin unto salvation" because: "it does not yet ap- 
pear what we shall be; but we know that he shall appear, we 
shall be like him for we shall see him (the soul) as he is. 

"And every man that hath the hope in him, purifieth him- 
self, even as he is pure." 

This was written by one who was not "saved by faith" but 
who had lived the life. He had purified himself; had not ex- 
pected another to live, and suffer, and die, for him. It is not 



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written that we shall see the Christ (the soul) if we believe, but 
that we shall see him if we purify (regenerate) ourselves. This 
is the true doctrine as promulgated by Jesus. It has nothing in 
common with the "salvation by faith" theory. 

"Even during the time of Jesus, the despised Jews purified 
themselves before they went into the temple. This they did by 
fasting and praying; and was termed the atonement before the 
feast of the Passover. It was emblematical of the labor of re- 
generation of the whole being, and the sanctification of the 
soul — the At-one-ment with the Father after the soul had reach- 
ed Illumination." 

Through this fasting and praying the Jews attempted to 
change themselves from an uncleanliness to a purification of 
mind and body, reconciling themselves to Oneness with God. 

No one can become one with God until he purifies (re- 
generates) himself. This "himself" refers primarily to the 
body, but more especially to the soul. 

In reality, man is soul. The body is merely a vehicle; it 
dies and thus ends its usefulness. 

The soul lives. It is. The soul is what the mind, through 
its thoughts, desires and acts has builded. It uses the body 
merely as an instrument through which to manifest, that it may 
accomplish its mission on earth. 

The first state of man was that of fire, for it was soul, and 
was from God. It was without form, such as we know form to 
be; was like the spirit, the wind, and the waters; was unstable 
because it was sans body, sans weight. It was a Divine Spark. 

This, "the Spirit of God moved long upon the face of the 
earth," then it entered physical form. The material substance 
chained it, held it; preventing its further flight, but gave it the 
means of experience. Because of its "fall" it must "work out 
its own salvation" for then, through the knowledge, gained by 
experience, will it emerge as one of the gods. 



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It is written: "The spirit is of the fire — the life spark — 
love." This spirit moved over the waters and like the sun, took 
up the moisture from the waters and the earth, and became 
possessed of mind. A longing was born, because the mind was 
thought, and the desire drew it to earth and became encased in 
flesh. 

Man, the physical, was formed of all the elements — fire, 
water, air, earth. All these entered into his composition; to the 
four-square was added the flame, and man became a sentient 
being. 

He, the Soul, descended in order to ascend. 

He was one with God at the beginning, but through his 
own thoughts and desires, he wandered away from his at-one- 
ment, and to again attain atonement he must become reconciled, 
returning to God as His own — as One — himself purified, cleans- 
ed and made perfect. 

He must be re-born; must re-create himself in the image 
and likeness of goodness and purity. 

Thus will he become At-one with God. 

God is in reality the universal, or Over-soul, and the puri- 
fied soul of man is one part of the Soul of God. 

The universe is the visible body, the manifestation, of God. 

When the mind of man plans and creates constructively, it 
is in reality the creation of God. God is the Source of all crea- 
tive ideas and thoughts that build for goodness, truth and virtue. 

There are seas of limitless knowledge for the soul that 
seeks to know. Eternal life, the secrets of nature, of life and 
of death, may be man's if he is willing to travel the path and 
grow into the Mystery. 

The great, almost unsurmountable stumbling block is the 
selfishness of self. Man greatly erred when he first allowed the 
selfish entity within himself to dominate his thoughts, desires 
and acts. This selfish being is the ruler upon the throne and 



122 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

until dethroned and replaced by the spirit of service little ad- 
vancement is possible. 

Man's mind, and his body, are to him the sole existence 
of all things, and the comforts and pleasures of the material 
life fascinate and lead him away from the spirit of the real. 
The more frequently he listens and yields to the demands of 
the flesh for pleasures and physical comforts not essential to his 
well-being, the less will he know of the actual and lasting. 

It is written : "What will it profit a man to gain the whole 
world and lose his own soul?" 

To turn away from the soul is death. 

So long as mind continues to function, a soul of some kind 
is created. Is it not written: "as a man thinketh in his heart 
so is he?" Man builds the soul according to his thoughts, his 
desires, and his labors. 

Temptations are ever present. They lead man astray. They 
induce him to wander in uncertainty and darkness, and the 
oftener he yields to his sensual and gross desires and appetites, 
the weaker will become the Divine Spark within. 

Ofttimes awakening comes only after the soul has been 
sapped dry through the fountain of sensual pleasure. Man then 
finds that he has eaten the apples of Sodom, and drank from the 
springs of Marah. At-one-ment has then become impossible; 
"the Soul that sinneth it shall die." 



Crucifi 



ruciiixion 

It is written "there was a darkness over all the earth, and 
the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the 
midst." 

At that day it was not Christ that was crucified. Christ 
was never crucified; though men are continually crucifying the 
Christ. 

Only the flesh suffered. The man, Jesus was nailed to the 
cross; the Christ within was never touched. 

Jesus had prepared himself for the Golgotha test. He un- 
derstood it was to be the supreme ordeal. The victory over 
which would lift him far beyond anything that mortal man had 
ever attained, and through his success would lift other men, with 
him, by being an everlasting example of what man may be. 

The gospels give us the life and ministry of Jesus; what 
he thought, what his desires were, the ideals he held, and the 
service he was rendering mankind as a worker and an examplar. 
All of his life was as a builder — the architect of a soul that 
illuminated not only itself, but all eternity. 

Some of his disciples recognized the work he was doing; 
as for instance Peter. 

"Whom say ye that I am (the real me, the soul) ?" 
And Peter answered: "Thou are the Christ, the Son of 
the living God." 

Jesus planned to build the Christie soul. He demonstrated 
the Christos, the Illuminated being. He manifested the power 
of a Son of God in every thought, word, deed and act. His 
ministry was based upon the mystery of the age — the possibility 
of mortality taking on immortality — of the corruptible becoming 
the incorruptible. 



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He understood, even as a child, that he would be about his 
"Father's business," though the learned men and teachers sitting 
in the synagogues comprehended not when he referred to his 
"Father's business." 

It is written that only his mother knew. It was she who, 
herself having been taught part of the mystery, and having her 
motherly intuitions awakened, kept watch over him and stored 
within her heart all that he said and did. Pity that mothers of 
to-day cannot be aroused to their immense possibilities and 
almost incomprehensible power for good. 

Because of his training and the development of his inner 
perceptions, Jesus understood all men. It is written: "And 
needed not that any should testify of man; for he knew what 
was in man." 

He understood the mystery of the mind; he could read men 
as an open book; their thoughts, desires and secret acts were 
clearly written upon their features for him to read. 

Their thoughts and desires were manifested before his 
eyes through all they did. Peter, with all his boasted loyalty 
in time of need, knew himself not as thoroughly as did Jesus; 
though Peter's knowledge and understanding then surpassed 
that of any other disciple. "When thou are converted (regen- 
erated, having attained Soul Consciousness), Peter, strengthen 
thy brethren." This signifies clearly that one may possess great 
powers of healing and teaching, yet be unconverted; still liable 
to be led astray by the fears and desires of flesh — of the self. 
The satan of self was Peter's greatest enemy, as it is of all of 
us. When his master was taken by the forces of evil, the rulers 
of high places, Peter feared for his own safety. Jesus had long 
known his weakness; was fully aware that Peter must first rid 
himself of the selfish self before he could be depended upon to 
strengthen others. When Peter finally saw himself as he really 
was, when he remembered his great boast of loyalty and love, 
"I will lay down my life for thy sake," and then recognized his 
weakness and cowardice in the moment of trial, can we wonder 



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that he went alone without and wept bitterly? All of us are 
Peters; some weaker, some stronger. 

There was none other among them who proclaimed his 
loyalty and love as did Peter; therefore, none other was as guilty 
as Peter; despite this, the great struggle he thereafter had with 
himself won the victory, for in the hour when Peter saw him- 
self — when he stood face to face with his soul, he was awakened 
to the truth, the mystery of his real being, and thereafter none 
ever stood forth so boldly, so utterly and faithfully for the truth, 
as did this same Peter. The birth of the soul often is during the 
hour of greatest trial; just as travail is before, and during, the 
birth of the material body into the world of matter. 

We believe ourselves strong and steadfast, thinking our- 
selves willing to die for another, only to find that the frail soul 
trembles for its own safety when the trial comes. 

How can we have the strength to sacrifice for another when 
we refuse to die (change and deny) for our own soul's sake? 

Man will destroy himself, crucify the soul, for the desires 
of the flesh and for worldly greed and gain; he will cheat and 
gamble, and barter his soul for money. He will deny the soul 
continually, but he is too weak to refuse the desires of the flesh. 
The craving and thirst for the treasures and pleasures of the 
world are too strong for him; their satisfaction are as nectar to 
him. 

Despite his eternal weakness, he knows that all the carnal 
desires and gains and pleasures will ultimately come to an end; 
and, as the immortal Burns wrote: "will leave him naught but 
pain for promised joys." 

He covets the tinsel; the treasures he leaves for others to 
spoil and abuse. The wine that left the sweet seductive taste, 
he can secure no more. The lure and temptations of fleeting 
sensual loves pass from him and he is forced to enter beyond 
the veil without light to guide him, without hope of help in his 
greatest hour of need. 

The flesh speaks for itself. Its voice is easily understood. 



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It has a way of making itself felt. We seek bodily ease and 
comfort because the flesh demands it. The contempt and dis- 
dain, the proud exclusiveness of the worldly great wound us. 
Why? 

Can the man who is great in the eyes of the world, but is 
without soul, have the power to wound those who have attained 
Soul Consciousness? Then why are we wounded? 

Think you Jesus suffered because he was poor, without 
being honored, and lacking worldly fame? 

He fully realized that the power which he possessed was 
of the gods; that the angels in the spheres were willing to min- 
ister unto him; that even his own people were willing to make 
of him a temporal king ; yet he departed from them. The desires 
of the flesh, the calls of men who could not comprehend the 
soul within, was not a temptation to him. He suffered not 
because of these things; his suffering was due to his ability to 
read the souls of men and to therein see transcribed their de- 
structive selfishness; their desire for self-glory and aggrandize- 
ment; their lack of spiritual desire. 

Why should we allow the worldly to wound us? 

Why should we care for the small places in life, that last 
for a day and bring responsibilities without just compensation? 
It is because we, like Peter of old, have not yet come face to face 
with the soul. Our hour of travail has not yet come; or it has 
come and found us sadly wanting. Only crucifixion of the 
selfish self will open our eyes to our opportunities and our pos- 
sibilities. 

It is written that Jesus said: "Of men born of women 
there is not a greater than John the Baptist, but he that is least 
in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." 

John, though mentally awakened, and having the gift of 
prophecy, had not yet passed through the crucifixion; he had not 
yet built the soul and attained consciousness of his Sonship. 
He was as a "Voice in the wilderness," the illumination, or Holy 
Ghost not yet having descended upon him. 



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"Crucify him," is the voice of the age speaking. "Crucify 
the flesh," — do not destroy the flesh, but transmute it, change 
its desires, elevate the ideals, exalt the entire being. This is 
the only path to freedom, to life; life here, now, and forever 
more. 

"Put up thy Sword into thy sheath; the cup which my 
Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" Why fight against 
that which must be? Man is on earth that he shall experience. 
Man is here to learn to know. The crucifixion, or Great Change, 
is one of the experiences he must pass through. It is as abso- 
lutely certain as is death; but man, having free will, can pass 
by (refuse) the crucifixion and enter the Great Unknown un- 
awakened, unenlightened and unconscious. Enter the Unknown 
he must; it were better then that he accepted the crucifixion 
before he entered the all that is. 

Shall we, dare we, refuse the crucifixion? 

The crucifixion — the transmutation of the gross and carnal 
into the refined — leads to the mastery of self and all forces; to 
the at-one-ment; to Sonship with the Father. Jesus, as all 
other Initiates before him, understood this fully, and continued 
in his way when the disciples would have struggled for power 
and self-glory. 

The personal self — the selfish self — must be crucified; that 
is, must be purified, freed from carnality. The desires — de- 
mands of the lower self — must be changed into ideals for the 
higher and greater. 

Jesus had been fully instructed in the Way ; he had master- 
ed the process. 

He did not pause, did not shrink, nor could anything dis- 
may him. 

Long before the final crucifixion, it is written he had said : 
"I lay down my life that I might take it up again." 

"No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 
I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up 
again." 



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To lay down the old self, to change it, to transmute it, is 
to crucify it. This crucifixion brings about the resurrection of 
the Soul and gives man Immortality. It is the path to power, 
the road to all that ever was, that is, or ever will be. Men may 
attempt to destroy us, if they succeed they destroy but the body, 
the destruction of the body under such conditions results in Im- 
mortality to the Soul. No other than the self can either reach, 
or destroy, the soul. 

When the soul is once awakened and has attained Conscious 
Individuality — a Sonship with the Father, then nothing on earth 
or in heaven can destroy it. It is. It is the mother of all that 
is — Isis. 

This is the key to "the kingdom of heaven, and the gates of 
hell cannot prevail against it." 

There is suffering perhaps for the awakening mind. The 
process of awakening — the slow disentanglement of the soul — is 
a birth ; but once the consciousness of the soul is attained suffer- 
ing ceases — the "life has been laid down that it might be taken 
up again in greater glory." 

There may be many obstacles to overcome in the earth life, 
and the desires of the flesh will constantly annoy and tempt, but 
when once the veil of the temple (the flesh) is rent, in its midst, 
so that the spiritual selfhood behind the veil can be known, suf- 
fering counts as naught and is even welcomed. 

The body is the temple of the living God; however, few 
are willing to pierce the veil hiding Him within that temple. 

When once the veil is rent in the midst, and this takes 
place at the crucifixion — when the desires and commands of the 
flesh are transmuted — then we command our spirit into the 
hands of the Father as did Jesus, and we begin to walk anew 
in life and peace, in eternal Sonship with the Creator of Souls. 

After Jesus rose from the tomb of physical death he suffer- 
ed no more trials and temptations. The sorrows of the flesh had 
ended. When we no longer desire a thing, it cannot tempt us. 
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Before the final change, brought about through the cruci- 
fixion, he was subject to temptation just as we are. He wept 
at the grave of Lazarus just as others did. Unlike others, he 
did not weep because of lack of hope, but on account of the 
blindness and incomprehension of those about him. It is not a 
weakness to understand the failings of others; but yielding to 
the temptations of the flesh is indicative of a lack of strength. 

Multitudes yield to the demand for the comforts and am- 
bitions of the earthly man, yet count themselves strong. Some 
of these teach constructive truths yet have not learned to look be- 
yond the veil of self into the temple within and thus understand 
that God dwells there, struggling for freedom, they believe, but 
they have not as yet attained to Conscious Individuality. They 
have shunned the final crucifixion — have thrust the cup away 
from themselves so their lips might not touch it. 

Jesus possessed great power because he understood and 
was always willing to take the bitter draught. "Not my will, 
but thine (the souls), of God." He felt the pangs of flesh more 
strongly than any other man because his spirit had become 
attuned, sensitized; but he had also been trained to overcome. 
He knew the thoughts of men because he could read desires and 
passions in the expressions of men. 

It is written: "he need not that any should testify of man; 
for he knew what was in man." 

He quickly senses the good from the evil. He was perfectly 
aware of the strength of the ties of flesh, and could read the 
impressions made on externals by the internal passions. 

The passions of the flesh had tempted and sorely tried him. 
He saw the same subtle enemy encompass his loved ones. He 
had compassion for them. Of the many lessons he gave unto 
men, the greatest of them was that of love and understanding. 

When they sought to destroy him he knew that they were 
unable to comprehend the truth. They had not even attempted 
to lift the veil of carnality from the soul. 



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"Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye 
cannot hear my word." 

"Ye are of your father, the devil (the material and its 
desires), and the lusts of your father ye will do." 

These lusts and evils of the flesh are those of which it is 

written he said: " a murderer from the beginning (a 

destroyer of truth and the soul) and abode not in truth, because 
there is no truth in him." 

There is no truth in evil, nor life in the pleasures of the 
senses. They say they will not surely die — that pleasure is life, 
but the senses and the flesh will surely die, there is no salvation 
in them. 

The material self suffers at the parting of the ways. When 
the veil is being lifted and before the soul reaches consciousness 
there is sorrow; this is only temporary. 

It is better to die and live again, than to live and be as dead 
forever, just as it is better to have loved and lost than not to 
have loved at all. In each instance there is resultant experi- 
ence. 

Awakened mind — John crying in the wilderness, is a 
subtle, steady builder. It is the river of life to the soul. The 
awakened mind is the water that can cleanse the soul from all 
uncleanliness. 

Mental-Concentration is the bathing of the soul in the 
waters of truth; the finest quality and highest potency of the 
regenerative vibrations of life. 

It is the kindly light leading through pits and shadows of 
evil. 

Awakened mind as creator is also the transmitter of all 
vibrations. 

These vibrations are absorbed by the soul and employed in 
its reconstruction; they create a color. These colors emanate 
from man and by them may his degree of enlightenment or 
degradation be quickly known. It ig thus that Jesus "needed 



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not that any should testify of man; for he knew what was in 
man." 

The mind creates thought. The mind is ever producing 
and creating; piling up wheat and tares unto the gleaning — 
until the crucifixion tears away the veil between body and soul 
and the Christos is become mature. 

During the past ages few men have trod the path willingly. 

There is darkness and the sun does not give much light 
until the Golgotha hour has struck. 

There is but one way to go; it is by way of the cross. 

It is the cleansing of the old, the elevation of desires, the 
purification and sanctification of that which is to continue. 

"He that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but 
climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.'" 

The development of the soul is the door. It leads into the 
worlds of light; to the planes of goodness and power beyond. 

To enter this way we must think constructively; desire 
elevatingly, and work exaltingly. We must "work out our own 
salvation." To attempt entering the kingdom of heaven other 
than by the door, is to be as a thief in the night. Justification 
by faith, salvation by faith, are hideous nightmares; it is trying 
to enter the kingdom of heaven as a thief in the night, by 
stealth instead of by worth. 

Service is the key to all power as it is to all greatness. 
There are many blind among us to whom we are able to teach 
the truth and thus save. There is no blindness so great as that 
of a blind soul. 

Destroy — transmute — the selfish self and the soul will see. 

Self is the veil of the temple, hiding effectually the Holy 
of Holies, and must be regenerated. 

It hides all that is beautiful within the spiritual dome, and 
allows darkness to reign upon "the face of the deep." ' 

Would you find rest, have peace? Then live according to 
the laws of peace. 

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has never in all the ages before. To find this peace the many 
causes creating unrest must be transmuted. The vibrations 
raised from destruction unto construction. 

The universe is a sphere of souls, all desiring one life or 
the other. 

The cold, indifferent, though perhaps moral man, who be- 
lieves in nothing but himself and his environments, is building 
a soul that is likewise cold and indifferent. As long as there 
are multitudes of such souls there can be no peace. 

To these the cross would prove a blessing and not a curse. 
Blessed is the man that nails the old, cold, self-loving self to 
the cross. 

Mind is the destroyer or the savior of men. 

Mind chooses the cross or the grave for the soul. One or 
the other must be accepted. There is no middle course. 

Elevate the thoughts of the mind, purify the body, and the 
soul will be cleansed and exalted. 

The body that is temperate and clean in all its members, 
the mind that is ennobled, will be a fit dwelling place for the 
gods. 

There are countless snares to be guided against, and these 
are ever in the path of those who seek the light. 

Among them are avarice, unnatural ambition and the de- 
sire to take advantage of our fellow men. These are all the 
henchmen of self -benefit and appear natural. 

The hands, the eyes, the voice, the lips, the feet, every 
member, and every fibre of the body aid in deceiving us, or in 
transmuting the baser substances of our being into pure and 
shining gold. The choice depends entirely upon the mental 
attitude, the degree of our enlightenment. 

If but one member of the body of Jesus had been defiled 
and impure he could not have lifted it from the state of death 
into life and light. 



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Love and its handmaiden, service, gave him the power to 
cleanse himself from all evil desires and temptations — the cross 
gave him the potential force to lift the thin veil of the temple, 
thus entering into eternal Sonship with the Father. 

"Unto him that look for him (think, desire and labor as 
he did) shall he appear the second time without sin unto sal- 
vation ( Immortality ) . " 

Let none deceive and say: "Jesus is an historical charac- 
ter, no such one ever lived." Though Jesus, as such, never 
lived, the way of the cross is the only path leading to the im- 
mortal life and all failing to attain Conscious Individuality, 
are prohibited from entering the temple. 

Let no one say: "This exalted life would be worse than 
death; denying us all desirable things, all the pleasures of life." 
This is not true. Nothing that is good, whether it be work, 
pleasure, profit, or recreation, is denied man. 



Judge Not 



No man is so truly good that there is no danger of his 
temporary fall, and the man in whom abides truth and good- 
ness is tempted more frequently than is the evil man. He may 
fall, but he comes' up from these trials and tribulations, and, 
readjusting himself, becomes stronger than ever. Only he who 
ceases to try and try again, is lost. 

He who possesses the strength to cleanse the soul and build 
it in the image of goodness, righteousness and love is as truly 
great as he who never debased the divine image within himself. 
He can attain to as great a height, become as pure as the most 
exalted, and overcome his Karma, and thus enter the kingdom 
of heaven, — he has been reborn and made new. 



Tke Passover 

Passover signifies deliverance from bondage. 

It denotes a change. A spiritual transition, a transmuta- 
tion from a lower to a higher estate. The preparation for the 
Great Change. 

It contemplates purification and the flight of the soul from 
past errors and tells of identification with God through che 
awakening and individualization of the personal soul. 

This is symbolized by our august Fraternity in the Winged 
Globe. The body, — the Globe must be made strong by Truth 
and through purification and exaltation that it may be able to 
support and poise the wings to carry it from past errors to pres- 
ent and future enlightenment. This is the Illumination — it is 
the Passover from the crude and carnal to the refined and 
spiritual. 

"Thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes 
on your feet, and your staff in your hands; and ye shall eat it 
in haste; it is the Lord's passover. 

"For I will pass through all the land of Egypt this night, 
and I will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I will 
execute judgment, I am the Lord." 

"For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night." 

The spirit, or Light transfusing the darkness or material. 

"And will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt." 

Firstborn: The birth into the flesh or mortal sphere. 
Through regeneration the flesh, which is darkness, or Egypt, is 
smitten, i. e. it is changed — passed over. 

All, each and everyone striving to attain the At-one-ness 



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or Christhood must eat (undergo) this passover. There is no 
other way to Soul Consciousness than this. 

The first stage is preparation; — the loins (representative 
of the carnal, or sex nature) must be girded with strength and 
a desire for purity. 

The entire body — the Globe, — the center column — the Pil- 
lar of mildness, must be builded strong and steady — consciously 
reliant and unwavering. 

"With shoes on your feet." 

Determination and a firm will prepares us to cope with 
the rock-strewn and mountainous roads we must travel. "Thy 
sandals shall be of iron and of brass, not of velvet slippers." 

"And your staff in your hands." 

The staff * is symbolic of the desires of the mind, heart 
and soul. Of the longings to pass-over from the material, the 
night (fieshpots of Egypt) of flesh, into the everlasting day. A 
freedom from the bondage of darkness (Egypt, or ignorance). 

"We must eat in haste." 

There must be no thought of the morrow, nor any allowance 
of the world to hinder it with its sorrows and pleasures. Delay 
means loss. "Procrastination is the thief of time — and of op- 
portunity." This is the "Lord's passover." It is the change 
from carnality and degradation to exaltation of our powers and 
regeneration of the entire being. 

The knowledge, "the Way," will come to us ofttimes when 
the night is darkest, "when night is over Egypt." When the 
cares and sorrows of life most heavily beset us; and when the 
Lord passes through; when the soul is beginning to awaken 
from the tomb or grave of ignorance, then all the firstborn (all 



*"Take thy staff in thy hand" has a deeply esoteric meaning 
which may not he given in a book of this nature. This subject 
is partly covered in the books "Divine Alchemy" and "Exalted 
Life," and is the fundamental upon which are based the "Arca- 
num of Sex" series. Philosophical Publishing Company, Quaker- 
town, Penna. 



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that is of the carnal) in the land (within ourselves) will die (be 
changed, transmuted, "passed over"). 

The "first born" is symbolic of the birth of the soul into 
the house of clay. This material shell or vehicle, being of the 
earth earthy, has mundane and carnal desires and drags the soul 
through degradation, which is darkness. The first born, the 
material entity — the covering of the soul, must therefore be 
transmuted, or passed over, it must, in a sense, die — be destroy- 
ed. On the day that this process is completed, will the Pass- 
over from the material to the spiritual or soulful, from the mor- 
tal unto the Immortal, have taken place. 

The weaknesses, the desires and the thoughts that have 
enslaved us and turned us away from truth and enlightenment, 
the evil or destructive things we have loved and clung to the 
most tenaciously, these are the firstborn within us (Egypt). 

"And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judg- 
ment." 

These are the gods and idols of the material life which 
hold the soul in darkness and bondage. The glitter and glamour 
and illusions of the sense-being, must be judged according to 
their worth; must be recognized as good or bad, false or true, 
and must be either strengthened or eliminated from the con- 
sciousness. 

The gods of desire are the most subtle. 

The sensual and material mind loves these thoughts more 
than any other gods. It glories in the debaucheries. But in the 
night (evening) of realization they must be slain (transmuted) 
and the soul then "passed over" from despair and death into 
illumination and light. 

The passover, which was instituted amongst the Jews by 
Moses, is a symbolization of this inner change which must take 
place in every human being if salvation of soul — Soul Con- 
sciousness, is desired, 

The Jews had no comprehension of the one true God, of 



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the law and man's destiny, until they were enlightened by the 
instructions given them by Moses. 

The Jews, because of centuries of slavery, were a stunted, 
material, sensual race. They had no conception of the God of 
Life and Immortality and sought only for freedom from ma- 
terial bondage. 

Moses, being of an Egyptian mother and a Jewish father, 
and trained in all that was Egyptian, was different from all his 
people. He had the education of the Egyptian while the long- 
ings for freedom of the Jews burned deeply in his soul. He 
had no consciousness of this restlessness within until after his 
training in the Priesthood had been completed, and Illumination 
occurred. It was then that he found himself destined not mere- 
ly to lead the Jews out of the bondage of slavery, but likewise 
to show them a way to overcome the desires of the flesh. 

All the great philosophers and saviors of the world, up to 
the time of the so-called Christian age, were taken into Egypt 
and instructed in the mysteries of the reigning Priesthood. 
Joseph, Moses and Jesus were all commanded to go to the 
Egyptians for a number of years and there they developed far 
beyond any other of their own people. 

Moses became the leader of all the Jews, and the greatest 
lawgiver of any that ever lived. Christianity, with all its 
"heavenly selected" hosts has not been able to formulate one 
law of greater importance than those given by Moses, the 
Hebrew-Egyptian, and Egyptian trained, to his people. 

Jesus, coming out of Egypt at the age of twelve, astonished 
the doctors and lawyers of the synagogues with his advanced 
knowledge. 

All this clearly and undeniably points to the fact that 
Egypt, though symbolizing darkness, was the center of all re- 
ligious knowledge and enlightenment. 

Moses, due to the subterfuge of his Egyptian mother, was 
accepted as an Egyptian, and was instructed in all the learning, 
and all the magical (spiritual rites) ceremonies of the Egyptian 



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Initiates. All that is written of the tests preceding the passover, 
in the book of Exodus, is symbolic of the esoteric work required 
of each and every one who desires to attain Conscious Individu- 
ality — the Passover from the material to the spiritual. 

This passover must be celebrated by the soul as the "Sab- 
bath of the Lord, in all your dwellings." 

It is the worship of the divine in all the temples. 

The passover is to be attained by the individual. It is not 
possible for humanity to "en masse" passover. The red sea 
must be crossed, which is merely to say that the "passions of 
the body" must be "dried up" or transmuted so that the soul 
will be released from its bondage of passion. 

When the Israelites ate again of "the old corn of the 
land," the day following the passover, when they ate "un- 
leavened bread and corn on the selfsame day," the manna from 
heaven ceased. 

When they endeavored to practice their unholy indulgences, 
which was the "old corn," and at the same time to partake of 
the spiritual practices "the unleavened bread," they failed 
utterly and no longer received enlightenment from heaven. 

This is the mistake made by many today. 

It is here where the church has failed in its ministry. 

Too great a multitude attend church to pray for forgiveness 
of sins and then on the selfsame day continue to live in dark- 
ness — the life of sin. 

Spiritual enlightenment will not permit the soul to remain 
blind to the illusions and material demands of the flesh. Intem- 
perance is not of one thing only. Overindulgence of the desires 
of the material man, in any form, is intemperance. 

The denizens of the world continue blindly striving after 
the things which satisfy the body for a time, but which are the 
husks to the soul. 

When we drink of the material waters we thirst again and 
again. There is no lasting satisfaction, no peace or rest. The 
drunkard returns again and again to his wine; each time be- 



140 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

coming more thirsty than before. The pleasure seeker is on a 
constant hunt for variety; gradually finding satisfaction in none 
and so becoming degenerate in his practices. 

Like the butterfly, he flits from flower to flower, drinking 
here, sipping there, never satisfied. 

Worn out and worldly weary, the question may come to 
him: "Where is peace and rest?" 

At last he realizes it cannot be found in the world where 
he must laugh and be merry if he would be courted, even though, 
like the Spartan boy, "the fire under his vest is eating out his 
heart." 

The world demands all we have to give, but offers little of 
value in return. When our smiles fade it bestows its favors 
elsewhere, and leaves us to starve and thirst until lastly nothing 
but the dregs are left. 

It never pays to starve the soul. 

The soul is far more important to you than the body; 
though the actual requirements of the body are not to be denied, 
nor is the physical being to be starved or abused. 

Spirituality only, is life, but even the Conscious soul re- 
quires a vehicle through which to manifest and do its works. 
"Honor thy father and thy mother." Render unto the body 
(Caesar) that which belongs to the body, and unto the Lord 
(the Soul) that which belongs to the Lord. 

You must carefully mark your dwelling place with the 
sign of enlightenment and understanding (the body with health 
and strength, the soul with Light), for the body reflects the soul 
within it. 

Let the Holy Fire (Ghost) enter. Let it find a resting 
place upon the throne of God within your soul, and all the gods 
of darkness will be destroyed (transmuted). 

Thoughts will change and become purified. Evil vibrations 
will pass over into good and they will dwell (and build) within 
you. "Before the throne of God, and serve Him (and you) day 
and night in His temple (your body), and you shall hunger no 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 141 

more and thirst no more for the lamb which is in the midst of 
the throne (the Soul) shall feed (satisfy) you and lead you 
unto living fountains of water (wisdom)." 

It is written that Jesus said, when at the well of Sychar: 
"He that drinketh of these waters that I shall give him shall 
never thirst." 

He who awakens to the desirability of attaining individual- 
ity and seeks the soul — the fountain from whence all wisdom 
issues — will need seek no further, for there is found all that 
was, that is, or that ever will be. "Seek first the kingdom of 
heaven and all other things shall be added unto you," is para- 
mount to saying: "Seek the soul, awaken it, build it, attain 
Conscious Individuality, and then all will be yours." 

Jesus kept a perpetual passover. It is written that; Two 
days before one of the feasts where all his disciples were to 
partake of food and wine in commemoration of his own inner 
awakening, he told them: "After two days is the feast of the 
passover, and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified." 

Why was the betrayal to take place at the time of the 
passover ? 

Why was the crucifixion to follow the betrayal ? 

"He took bread and blessed it and brake it, and gave it to 
the disciples, saying: "Take, eat, this is my body," and he 
took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: 
'Drink ye all of it!'" 

This represents the passing over, the transmutation, of the 
physical, the mortal, into the spiritual, the Immortal. 

Jesus taught his followers the mysteries of life. He in- 
structed them in the method for the transmutation of all that is 
gross, carnal, and temporal into that which is refined, exalted, 
and continual. He inculcated a life knowing no death. The 
Doctrine of the passover is the tenet of continual change, ever- 
lasting action, for, action is life. 

There were certain Greeks among them that came to wor- 
ship at the feast and they requested to see Jesus. It would ap- 



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pear that these made him some proposition, for it is written that 
he said: "Now is my soul troubled and what shall I say? 
Father, save me from this hour (from the weakness that would 
induce acceptance) ; but for this cause came I unto this hour." 
To be tested and have the strength to refuse a proposition that 
offers great personal benefit at the moment, truly few men are 
so born. 

The Greeks were far in advance of the Jews and had 
Jesus labored among them they would not have been inclined 
to crucify him. However, the flesh must be crucified — trans- 
muted or changed — and Jesus was to illustrate this truth to 
mankind. 

The law confronted him as it does all of us. We sidestep 
the law as long as we can. We are foolish enough to believe 
that we can, with immunity, defy laws which have existed since 
before man, and that we can escape punishment through faith 
in a personality. No man has yet been able to do so, and as 
long as God lives none will be. 

The crucifixion is the preparation for the awakening and 
indwelling of the Conscious soul within us. The passover is 
the purification and cleansing of the body, the denial of the 
senses and their desires. But for the passover there could be no 
crucifixion, and missing the crucifixion there can be no arising 
from the dead (freedom from weakness and carnality), and no 
Illumination. 

Paul, the great apostle, explains it thus: "Purge out there- 
fore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are un- 
leavened, for even Christ our passover, is sacrificed for us." 

"Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither 
with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the un- 
leavened bread of sincerity and truth." 

Not with the old thoughts of malice and wickedness. 
Thoughts build soul. Thoughts are the inducing cause of the 



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real passover. Desires are the incentive. The purified mind 
lifts up the body and soul into the everlasting. 

The passover must be rigidly kept, not with great pomp 
and ceremonies, with feasting and killing of helpless animals, 
but with the transmutation and crucifixion of the desires of the 
carnal. 

Thus is lifted up the soul and passes over into at-one-ment, 
unity and sonship with the Father. 

This is the reason for the command that men keep the 
passover, and so the promise: "As often as ye do thus ye do it 
in remembrance of me." 

Every moment that we keep ourselves free from harmful, 
destructive, lustful thoughts and desires, we lift our vibrations 
that much higher and we eat the passover in remembrance of the 
Son of God. We are seeking the most exalted; we therefore 
purge ourselves from evil and from sin. 

Men cannot commit that of which they do not think. 

Every act is an outer reflection of the mind in action; of 
the thoughts harbored by the mind. The body is the dwelling 
place of both mind and soul. What the soul is, depends upon 
the thoughts of the mind. 

Only when we drink the wine of the fruit and partake of 
the unleavened bread of purification can we pass into the temple 
beautiful, wherein the Lamb (reborn Soul) sits in the midst of 
the throne, and in the midst of the host (raised multitude of 
desire and longing). 

The mystery of the ancients becomes a simple problem in 
the light of the Illuminated soul. 



Accepting Our Own 

We came into this world because of our own longing to 
descend. We came of our own free will. No one forced us to 
come. None even indicated to us that we should come. God 
never made anything, and never placed anything, where it did 
not belong or where it did not gravitate by its own free action. 
We were drawn from a plane of purity and justice because we 
desired it; but with our descension we were forced for the first 
and final creative fiat, to take the absolute law with us and to 
abide by its final verdict. It always was a part of us and we 
part of it. When we dwelt in the soul sphere as divine particles 
of the Father, before we descended into the flesh, we were part 
of all that existed and were governed by the creative law. That 
is why we desired, and took up the flesh; thus were we wrought 
in the image of the Creator. 



Tlie Law of Compensation 

"Do unto others as you would that they should do unto 
you." The Golden Rule. 

"As ye sow so shall ye reap." The Kartnic Law. 

Karma is the Law of exact Justice, and demands in full 
the payment for all destructive thoughts we think, the desires 
that we countenance, and the acts that we commit. 

Whatever law, whether natural or spiritual, is set at vari- 
ance by us, that law must be appeased by us. We must pay 
to the utmost farthing. This is the one universal, all-embracing 
law taught by the ancients as the Law of Karma, by Jesus as 
the Golden Rule, and by Emerson as the Law of Compensation. 

We suffer because we have been untrue to our own selves. 
If we commit that which is not constructive, we violate a law; 
we do that which is either not to our own benefit or is detri- 
mental to another. We interfere with the divine law giving 
every individual freedom and privileges with which no man has 
a right to interfere. 

When we suffer we are merely undergoing the penalty re- 
sulting from personal acts, the pain or sorrow being due to the 
harmonious reaction of the Karmic Law. 

In the Golden Rule we have a restatement of the absolute 
law known to the ancients as the "Law of Karma." 

Do unto your neighbor, your friend, your enemy, your foe, 
and even to the unknown, as you would have them do unto you. 
If you do this you will uphold justice and work out your own 
freedom. 

It is not at all difficult to do thus to those whom we love. 
The struggle comes when we attempt to be just toward one who 



146 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

hates us and is constantly trying to bring us loss or possibly 
ill-repute. 

One who gives the law superficial thought might arrive to 
a contrary conclusion. This does not imply that we should per- 
mit such a person to bring us loss or sorrow. This would be 
becoming equally guilty with them in the committing of wrong. 
On the contrary, it demands of us that we seek justice, that we 
attempt to prevent them from doing wrong, but that we pursue 
methods that are just, such as we ourselves would want others 
to employ were we trying to deprive them of their belongings, 
Or causing them sorrow, or defaming their character. 

Were man without enemies, loving all and beloved of all, 
there would be no need for the Law of Justice and it would 
cease functioning. In that case, this would not be a school of 
experience, wherein all must learn needed lessons ; it would then 
be the haven of the blessed, the sphere of action forseen by 
John the Revelator. 

We reap just what we sow. Jesus did his best by demon- 
strating the law, through the operation of sowing and reaping. 

When we sow thistles and thorns we should not be foolish 
enough to expect to reap wheat and corn. We should expect 
thistles and thorns, with interest and compound interest, added. 

We came into this world because of our own longing to 
descend. We came of our own free will. No one forced us to 
come. None even indicated to us that we should come. God 
never made anything, and never placed anything, where it did 
not belong or where it did not gravitate by its own free action. 
We were drawn from a plane of purity and justice because we 
desired it; but with our descension we were forced for the first 
and final creative fiat, to take the absolute law with us and to 
abide by its final verdict. It always was a part of us and we 
part of it. When we dwelt in the soul sphere as divine particles 
of the Father, before we descended into the flesh, we were part 
of all that existed and were governed by the creative law. That 



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is why we desired, and took up the flesh; thus were we wrought 
in the image of the Creator. 

The soul never suffers because of deeds of kindness and 
goodness. Only when suffering is wrought is there a reaping of 
misery. The body may be tortured, and the mind agonized, as 
a result of effort for the welfare of others, but these afflictions 
never reach the soul. 

Thus it is when we do good unto others and try to help 
them, and they turn upon us and would destroy and persecute, 
scourge and defame us. These things bring suffering to the 
body and agony to the mind, but they are transmuted, and when 
they finally reach the soul they are become holy Fires which 
give life to it. 

The Law is absolute over all that exists. 

Many say: "I have suffered, not because of sins of my 
own, but through the machinations of others." Jesus passed 
through mental and physical agonies, not because of his own 
misdeeds, but due to the ignorance and maliciousness of others. 
Despite all, his soul never really suffered. In the final analysis 
he reaped only what he sowed. He lived constructively; in the 
outward sense he was made to suffer for these, but the cross 
brought him Immortality. He sowed goodness and kindness; 
he reaped sonship with the Father. 

Some say: "Why did he reap persecution and injustice 
when he sowed seeds of love, justice and mercy?" He did not 
actually reap these things — he transmuted them into eternal life. 
Here, as nowhere else, is exemplified the law that: "things are 
not always what they seem." 

Jesus overcame all enmity and thus became the interpreter 
of almost the entire white race because he sowed the seeds 
which bore fruits of life. He lifted his soul to the Godhead by 
his teachings and his works. It is written that he said: "I, if 
I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me," and those who 
thought that they were destroying him were actually helping 
him in the process of transmutation, 



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Unenlightened human beings do not love. They are full of 
hatred and envy. They imagine that they have the power to 
destroy. They can destroy none except themselves and others 
like themselves. 

Ultimately, as we do so is it done unto us. If we are 
guilty of an unkind thought or a wicked act, we draw unkind- 
ness toward ourselves. We surround ourselves with the atmos- 
phere, or aura, of other human minds harmonizing with our 
own. 

"Beware of false prophets, by their fruits shall ye know 
them." 

The words we think and speak, the acts we commit, the 
desires we harbor, all these compose the human tree. 

A pure, kindly thought never produced an evil, destructive 
act. The clean, exalted mentality cannot accumulate thoughts 
of envy, hatred, jealousy and malice. 

It is therefore easy to see why you reap evil when you 
(consciously) know you are not always even trying to be good. 

He who strikes you for doing him a favor; taking advant- 
age of you, and abusing you, does not actually hurt you. His 
ungrateful acts will wound your feelings, may cause you loss, 
but if you accept it without hatred or resentment, the mental 
forces will transmute the ill-treatment into a living Fire and 
this Fire the Soul receives and uses in bringing itself into In- 
dividualized Consciousness. 

No suggestion is here intended that one should calmly 
accept loss for a favor, persecution for a kindly act, hatred for 
love. On the contrary, one should demand justice and a "pay- 
ment to the utmost farthing," but this must be with only the 
thought of justice in mind and to prevent the mental pervert 
from becoming pronounced in his thought that he may with 
immunity take advantage of his fellow men. 

If you have been kind and helpful to one and he hates 
you for so doing, he has not hurt you; he has not been able to 



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bring condemnation upon you, nor has he destroyed you; he is 
slowly and surely bringing destruction upon himself. 

You exclaim: "No one can think and do good all the 
time." 

It is written: "Let the tares and the wheat grow together 
until the harvest (while you are gradually awakening the mind 
to its possibilities and the desirability of thinking constructively 
and acting justly), then gather first the tares (the things you 
have learned to be of no lasting benefit to you) and bind them 
into bundles to burn them (transmuting them into building 
material) ; but gather the wheat (all that is good) into my barn 
(the receptacle of the soul)." 

One by one we are enabled to find and gather together 
the tares, — the evil thoughts, desires and acts. We will then 
separate the good from the not good, storing the desirable and 
lasting unto the soul; thereby helping toward the creation of 
the Conscious Individuality within the personality, or self- 
being. 

If we do unto others in as far as we know what is right, 
we are gathering together the good, the wheat. 

The wicked are not always blind. They can differentiate 
between the good and the evil, the constructive and the destruc- 
tive. They know within themselves, within their hearts, that 
they are doing that which is not right, though they may believe 
that what they are doing is for their own benefit and therefore 
at least temporarily advantageous. 

Have you ever stopped to think, to reason, the possibility of 
a thought, whether it be envious, hateful, lustful, or malicious, 
to be a snare to destroy your own soul? All these thoughts are 
creators of a deadly poison. By permitting them in your men- 
tality, you first create, then drink the poison that stabs you in 
the back, — that will kill you. 

It is written that Jesus demonstrated all the laws of love 
and kindness; that the multitudes called him "that great serene 
man." He was serene and calm when all the evil forces in the 



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world were arrayed against him. He was fully aware that with- 
in himself existed no reservoir, no prepared receptacle to receive 
these forces, and that this being lacking, no harm could come 
to him. 

Every pleasure that usurps duty, honor or truth, is a de- 
stroying archangel. 

Lustful, sensual pleasures, the keen thrill of delight over 
the downfall of an enemy, even though well-earned, are delu- 
sions that create poisons in the soul. 

All evil comes from the mind. It is born in the mind, and 
given a place of residence there. It is like a destructive tenant 
in a beautiful palace. If allowed to remain domiciled therein, 
it will soon demolish the beautiful interior. 

Sin is merely defied law. The law is absolute. No man 
can set it aside, or even attempt to do so, without paying to the 
"uttermost farthing.'" 

Man consciously disobeys the divine law, foolishly believ- 
ing he can be lastingly benefitted thereby. Man dies because he 
continues to set aside the divine fiats. He destroys body and 
soul. 

Whenever we are unkind, we transgress the law of kind- 
ness. 

Every time we speak falsely we know not the truth. We 
have violated the law and condemn ourselves as liars. 

When hatred enters the heart, even though we have been 
wronged or reviled, we know not the law of love. We are not 
love, but we personify hate and acknowledge hate, envy, malice 
and jealousy as our companions. 

We are what we think; and each of the thoughts we think 
is indelibly impressed upon the soul and becomes a part of it. 

In this manner do we build or destroy the Soul. We are 
the architect and the builder of that which we know as "The 
temple of Solomon the King." 

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up thinking evil thoughts, substituting constructive thoughts, 
such as planning for business, social and spiritual success. 

When destructive thoughts creep into the mind, immediately 
replace them with those of kindness. In the beginning this re- 
quires effort; gradually the process becomes one of second 
nature. 

When we have succeeded in doing this then we face the 
danger of wanting to force others to our way of thinking and 
living. This has been the curse of all the ages. We have no 
right to force others to do as we do, or even as we believe. We 
may persuade men but we cannot obtain the privilege either by 
natural or divine law, to force them to do as we might wish, 
even though we actually know it would be to their lasting benefit. 

If we are just and amiable toward our fellow-men, if we 
offer truth and service, we build these spiritual potencies within 
our own soul. If men fail to appreciate our overtures, if they 
persecute and condemn us, we need have little care. We have 
done our duty toward them. We are building the immortal 
soul within ourselves and none other can reach that soul. 

This planet is a sphere of souls; each one upon its own 
plane of growth, and responsible for itself. Because the evil in 
man hates all that is good, even execrates God, He (God) does 
not stoop to return hatred; He goes on loving, demonstrating 
goodness, and offering opportunity to all to grow toward Him 
and all that is desirable. 

When we see a righteous man suffer from the thoughts 
and deeds of evil minds, it is not always an indication that he 
is thereby reaping the fruits of former sowing. It may be 
merely that he is laying up spiritual treasures in heaven (his 
own soul) for future benefit. His soul may be serene and at 
peace underneath the agitation resulting from the external per- 
secutions. 

His soul is climbing upward toward Conscious Individual- 
ity with every thought and act of love. He is lifting himself up 
and by continuing faithful, will draw others unto him. 



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Analyze your desires before you give them an abiding 
place in your mind. 

Thoughts are seeds. They ripen into grain and fruit ac- 
cording to the variety sown. 

Karma is reaping what you have sown and not what some 
one else may have attempted to sow for you. 

You are not reaping for another's sowing unless you ac- 
cept it as your own. You are not justified in hating any one, 
no matter what they have tried to do to you. Each thought and 
deed enacted by them is building their soul and cannot influence 
yours unless you sponsor it. 

Ignorance cannot excuse us for any thought or act. 

There are few so ignorant of the difference between right 
and wrong, good and evil, that they sin in blindness. 

The evil-doers are seldom blind to the wrong, nor totally 
ignorant. They are violent because they love violence. They 
dwell in darkness because it is in harmony with their desires. 
Every living being unconsciously seeks for, and clings to, that 
which it is within its innermost self. Love seeks love because 
it is love. Evil seeks the destructive because it vibrates on the 
same plane of action. 

All the rules of life, every law of being, every indication 
toward right is in written fiats : "Love ye one another." "Bear 
ye one another's burden." "Do unto others as you would be 
done by." 

Man requires no other laws. If he would but follow the 
spirit of these, he would accomplish the highest which man can 
attain. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all 
thy soul, and with all thy strength and with all thy mind," is 
but a restatement of these others. He who so loves his fellow- 
man, likewise to that degree does he love God. Furthermore, 
he, to that degree, builds his own immortal and eternal soul. 

It is decidedly easy to love those who love us, who are 
good, kind and gentle with us, because love easily begets love, 
and readily responds to love; but it is difficult for us to go to 



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the outcast, the man deliberately destroying his soul and body, 
and call him brother, the while offering to help him to re- 
establish himself upon a normal plane of life. Nevertheless, it 
is through such efforts when made in the right attitude of mind, 
that we gain most for ourselves. 

Most of us have read the story of the man who went down 
Jericho's road only to fall among thieves, who, stopping him, 
stripped him of all he possessed, wounded him, then left him tc 
die. Not many appreciate what this Jericho road means. There 
are possibly few of us who have not fallen by the wayside of 
this same Jericho road. We are daily traveling it and thieves 
are continually waiting to strip us of all the worth-while things 
we possess. Little does man appreciate that the sinful thoughts 
and destructive desires of his heart are the thieves and robbers 
stripping him of all that is of value, leaving him by the way- 
side denuded of all but the husks of existence. 

These destructive agencies are the more cunning because 
they know the weakness in the strongest. Who ever partook of 
a sinful pleasure and was satisfied for any length of time? 
Sin keeps demanding more and more, because it loses taste for 
the pleasures it enjoyed for the moment. It is like the usurer 
from whom we borrowed money, demanding interest on interest 
until very shortly the interest paid, is greater than the sum 
total first borrowed, yet the principal remains unpaid. 

It is restless and ever in quest of a nameless something. 
Like the wicked spirit written of in the Bible, — "It seeketh 
rest and findeth none." Constantly drawing, sapping and self- 
seeking; taking all from us and returning nothing but pain and 
sorrow. 

These are the thieves we find along Jericho (life's) road. 

The priest comes down the way, and seeing the sufferer, 
passes him by on the other side of the road. 

The man is the soul journeying down life's pathway; fight- 
ing continually against the desires of the flesh. The priest is 
the bigoted self-righteous mentality that refuses to see justice 



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or salvation in other than the accepted, dogmatic, creed-bound, 
usage-corroded systems. It is your own mind, by the way, 
which reverences the world and its opinions more than it loves 
the soul within. The mentality of the worldly-wise is heartless, 
cold, and unmoved by suffering. 

A Levite comes by, but pauses only long enough to look 
upon the suffering, then like the priest, he passes by. The 
Levite is the dweller in the proud, haughty, self-righteous mind, 
seldom stopping longer than to satisfy curiosity and possibly 
offering an "I told you so." 

Then, lastly, approaches the despised Samaritan, The out- 
cast from the association of all the self-appointed autocrats of 
goodness — that countless millions of self-righteous personali- 
ties who believe themselves saved by faith irrespective of their 
acts; though their deeds have been such as are damned of God. 
It is this Samaritan who, unacceptable to the established 
churches, fraternities and clubs, nevertheless is possessed with 
a mind filled with love and kindness, will minister to the needs 
of the suffering and neglected soul; will listen and respond to 
its cries of distress for freedom and for rest. 

This is the mind which thinks and performs righteous acts 
without even a thought of reward. This is the mentality which 
ultimately gives birth to an illuminated, individualized Con- 
sciousness. It is the one to whom God will say: "This is my 
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." 

The earnest, aspiring soul is not one seeking reward. It 
is not expecting glory; — it does its duty because of a longing 
to fulfil its destiny. It does to others as it would be done by. 

Jesus was such a soul. He lived the truth so that others 
might profit by his experience and his example. 

In the very beginning of his study he realized that Man, 
as a soul, cannot exist on the material breath of life alone. 
Worldly fame, glory and splendor, while very delightful, will 
not construct the soul and bring it to Consciousness. It is 
like building on sands; matter, or material substance, not exist- 



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ing long in one form. Soul alone is eternal and unchangeable; 
therefore, we must build on a rock (Soul), if we would find 
eternity. 

There are as many different kinds of souls as there are 
bodies in which they dwell. The selfish soul, the jealous soul, 
the envious soul; all these are built on sands. They are for a 
day, then pass to be no more. 

God does not destroy a soul, neither does he condemn or 
damn a soul. The ones to die have destroyed themselves 
through their thoughts, desires and acts. God does not punish. 
Man punishes himself. Man is either his own creator or de- 
stroyer: "The soul that sinneth it shall die." 

Fire and brimstone will burn up material substance, but the 
fire and brimstone which destroys the soul is that created in 
the evil mind and consumes the soul by starving it through non- 
supply of the constructive material it requires to live. 

God does not countenance evil. He does not compromise 
with evil and walk hand in hand with it. He who compromises 
is lost. This is the eternal fiat. The good in man's soul either 
counter-balances the evil and thus saves him; or the evil is 
greater than the good and destroys him. 

The soul may reach a stage where it is momentarily equally 
good and evil, "weighed in the balance" as it were, but it cannot 
long remain so; it must either proceed building for eternity or 
gradually retrograde. Nothing in nature can possibly stand 
still for any length of time. 

In following the dictates of the lowly Nazarene, or of 
Apollonius of Tyana, we soon learn to over-balance evil and 
thus build the soul both by the doing of good deeds and by 
conscious efforts. 

"Love ye one another" and "Do unto others as you would 
have them do unto you," will nullify every Law and every bond 
that would bind you to the past or work to your destruction. 



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This is the washing of your robes, making them white as 
snow, though they may have been as scarlet. 

He who writes in Revelation as John, tells us that those 
who wear the robes of white are such as have overcome many 
errors. Man does not answer for the sins of others, nor for the 
hatred and wickedness of those who hate him. He suffers only 
for the deeds committed by himself or for the service he should 
have rendered to others and did not. Sins are of commission 
or of omission. 

No man is so truly good that there is no danger of his 
temporary fall, and the man in whom abides truth and good- 
ness is tempted more frequently than is the evil man. He may 
fall, but he comes up from these trials and tribulations, and, 
readjusting himself, becomes stronger than ever. Only he who 
ceases to try and try again, is lost. 

Trials we may have without committing sin, but the man 
who has sinned deeply and despite his wrongs, has gained 
strength to triumph over all that besets him is just as worthy as 
the man or woman who never sinned, were that possible. 
"Though your sins be as crimson," let that encourage you. 

He who possesses the strength to cleanse the soul and build 
it in the image of goodness, righteousness and love is as truly 
great as he who never debased the divine image within himself. 
He can attain to as great a height, become as pure as the most 
exalted, and overcome his Karma, and thus enter the kingdom 
of heaven, — he has been reborn and made new. 

All the tares he may have sown are gathered together and 
consumed by the might of the struggle of his own soul's fire; 
while the wheat is gathered together and bears the fruit of life 
within his soul. 

The law of Karma is absolute and cannot be set aside. 
Even God has not the might to do so. You reap what you sow; 
either now or in the distant future. Let none induce you to be- 
lieve otherwise. 



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No man can hope to sow evil and reap good, to commit 
wicked deeds and inherit peace. Karma reaps. The Law of 
Compensation cannot be set aside by faith or by absolution. 
Service alone can wipe clean the record. "By their fruits shall 
ye know them." 



Self ^-Condemnation 

Unbelief, mistrust, harsh and cruel judgment of others, 
builds a wall of destruction about the soul and destroys it. No 
man can fathom the soul of another, therefore, cannot under- 
stand the causation of acts, and as a consequence, has no au- 
thority to judge another. It is written that "the Father judgeth 
no man" how then can man be so arrogant as to take judgment 
of another upon himself? Finite man alone is conceited, self- 
righteous, presumptive. 



Judgment 



"The Father (God) judgeth no man but hath committed 
all judgment unto the Son (soul)." 

Who is the Father and who is the Son? 

When we have knowledge of the Father then we likewise 
have knowledge of the Son; the Father and Son being one. 

When we are born again — regenerated — the Soul brought 
to Conscious Individuality, or to Soul Consciousness of its One- 
ness with the Father, then it, the Soul, is become the Son of 
God. 

The soul purified of all its uncleanness enters into unity 
with the Father; thereby having attained Sonship or Christhood. 
It then seeth the things the Father (God) doeth, for understand- 
ing is given it and the spiritual * eyes are opened to the percep- 
tion of spiritual things. 

Those who have attained the Sonship will do all in their 
power to harmonize their thoughts, desires, and acts with the 
Father's will and so be as nearly like Him as possible, ex- 
pressing Godliness, tenderness, mercy and compassion in all 
their thoughts, actions, words and works. As the eyes of the 
young man of olden times were opened by the prayers of 
Elisha, even so, by the desires and prayers of the soul, are open- 
ed the eyes of all born in material and worldly blindness. 

When ennobled desires are sent from the mind they charge 
the soul and our eyes begin to see a glimmer of the truth. Then 



*The term "spiritual" is here used lor want of a better one. 
"Soulual" would be a far better appellation. The spirit is the life 
of man. Man cannot see with spiritual eyes, for the spirit is 
common to all living forms. Man's immortality is of the soul, 
pot of the spirit. 



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has commenced the great day of judgment. In those days 
"Shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her 
light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of 
the heavens shall be shaken." These are the days of trials and 
tribulations. All may be looking dark and desolate to our newly 
awakened vision. The material splendor that formerly dazzled 
us and appeared as the only worth while possession, begins to 
fade and is covered with darkness. The moon with all glitter 
and promise of fame and power, loses its desirability. Stars 
indeed fall; those stars of desire that lured us on in quest of 
earthly pleasures and dreams, shall fall and the powers of 
heaven shall tremble; for the soul itself is shaken on learning of 
its responsibilities and that by the divine fiat it must pass judg- 
ment upon all the thoughts, desires and acts. 

Is it not written: "The Father judgeth no man but hath 
committed judgment unto the Son (the Soul Consciousness) ?" 

Every son of God is compelled to bring judgment upon 
himself. He must weigh in the balance and find impartial judg- 
ment upon every thought, act and deed committed by mortal 
mind and carnal being. Truly the great Creator could not have 
thought of a more absolute and just Law. A Law that allows 
not one to escape. A Law that grants neither mercy nor for- 
giveness for wrongs committed. 

The Law is Absolute and Inviolable. 

When man turns aside from false beliefs, evil and sensual 
desires, and carnal longings, he has repented of sin and con- 
fessed the Christ. Then judgment, cold, stern and severe, sits 
upon the throne, and the soul pays to the utmost farthing. 

Is it not written: "Thou shalt in no means come out from 
them until thou hast paid the last farthing?" 

This is the day when the sign of the Son of Man shall 
appear in the heavens (our inner Consciousness). It is the 
sign of the awakening, the Illumination, — that great event 
which all true humans await with such fear and trembling. It 
is the day that all cowards and degenerates would hold back or 



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sidestep, through obtaining the remission of their evil deeds and 
thereby enter the kingdom of heaven "As a thief in the night." 

Upon the soul is written (impressed as committed) every 
evil thought, word or deed. It is forced, by action of the divine 
fiat, to be confessor of all wrongs committed through ages past. 
We are compelled to stand face to face with it, to acknowledge 
all its accusations, for it can neither withhold from our horrified 
vision, nor deny one jot or tittle. 

We will see all that we built — a useless, crime-infested 
shell or husk wherein we have dwelt, or a beautiful, durable 
mansion, a veritable Temple of Solomon, wherein is the Holy 
of Holies, the fitting abiding place of an Illuminated, Con- 
sciously Individualized Soul. 

The time for us to stand before the self-accuser may be to- 
day, it may be to-morrow, but certain it is that we cannot etern- 
ally delay the judgment. The judge resides within the soul of 
each one of us. In his possession is our record, and neither 
man nor God has the power to erase therefrom one incident. It 
is our record, we alone must face the accusations, nor can there 
be justification for wrongs. 

Despite the ordeal to be faced, the event should be a time 
for rejoicing, for man thus finds his own soul. He is become 
himself, with the opportunity to "Cast behind him Satan" and 
begin the new, deathless life. 

Man is in reality soul. The flesh, the body, is only to 
manifest that soul. Foolishly, mental man thinks that which 
he sees is himself, when in truth it is but the shell of himself. 

The thoughts, the words, the actions, the deeds, these are 
the soul of man made manifest; for is it not written? 

"By the fruits shall ye know the tree," and "By their fruits 
shall ye know them (the man)." 

"Have I done right — was my act constructive?" Ask your- 
self the question and the soul answers. It reminds you of all 
you have done, keeps a record of all you have accumulated; for 
the soul, as a wise philosopher has said, is truly the "accumu- 



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lated experience of man." These experiences have been what 
the mind desired, and as man contemplates his past experiences, 
analyzing the cause of action, dividing the good from the evil, 
the destructive from the constructive; he is forced, by the abso- 
lute divine law, to judge and condemn — his own soul. Despite 
the impossibility to escape from his own consciousness of guilt, 
it is the good in man, the longing to attain Godhood, that 
awakens him and confers upon him the power to judge himself. 
This good (or savior) awakening to life within him, is the in- 
fant Christ. It is his ultimate redeemer. 

"And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn." 

All the desires and carnal passions of the flesh mourn this 
awakening and mortal mind does all in its power to delay the 
day. These inheritances of the earth-being will, for a time, be- 
come stronger than ever, tearful, painful and suffering; but this 
is the agony one must count as joy — it is the deliverance. 

At this stage of our growth we are either saved or con- 
demned. We are thrust out into utter darkness or we commence 
to ascend toward the throne of God; finally to be clothed in the 
whiteness of spiritual wisdom and the light of Conscious Im- 
mortality. 

How does man' condemn himself and enter the darkness 
that knows no day? 

By refusing to allow the cleansing Fires from the heavens 
to descend upon him. By accepting unity and sympathy with 
the lusts of the flesh. By steadfastly wedding himself to the 
material and worldly splendors of the temporal. 

When we finally agree to righteously judge ourselves and 
turn away from the temporal and unreal, then we shall see the 
"Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and 
great glory. And his angels shall come with a great sound of 
trumpets, and they shall gather together his elect from the four 
winds of heaven, from one end of the heaven to the other." This 
is the symbolic picture of the soul awakened in the likeness of 
its Creator. It is a perfect representation of the Soul's attain- 



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ment to Conscious Individuality and all which the term im- 
plies. 

Man shall "see" the coming of the Son of man. 

The Illuminated Soul throws its reflection on the vision of 
the awakened man. This is not a figure of speech. It is a 
provable fact. It may be visualized in the great power and 
glory of its illumination, in its righteousness and purity, in its 
love and unselfishness, and above all, in its newborn freedom 
and willingness to pay its Karma, or soul-indebtedness to the 
"utmost farthing." 

Can the seeker comprehend, fully understand, that every 
thought he thinks, every desire he holds and every word spoken 
(whether good or ill), every act and every deed, is recorded 
faithfully and indelibly, upon the Soul itself? If he does, then 
he is well on the way to Life and Eternity. The soul is in truth 
the Lamb's Book of Life, and in it are recorded every thought, 
desire and deed of the soul. 

When man has awakened the soul, and brought it to con- 
sciousness through elevating and ennobling thoughts, desires and 
deeds, then will he be able to see (through reflection) the soul. 
He will know where it dwells (by tracing it to the Center), and 
comprehend what manner of indestructible Fire it is. 

How many and dark are the pages written in the Book of 
Life of each individual being, that will bring the scalding tears 
of shame and remorse to the eyes! 

Be it so. It is well when these tears come, for then man 
is beginning to see clearly and is being judged by a righteous 
judgment. 

When the tears refuse to come, when man feels no sorrow, 
no remorse, over the picture of evil and darkness before him, he 
is unrepentant. The past belongs to the past, and we should 
allow the "dead to bury the dead" and we need not dwell upon 
sins committed, thereby becoming discouraged and hopeless, but 
the past is never dead until it has been judged by the soul and 
restitution made. 



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When the soul has arisen and walked over the troubled 
waters, then must it proceed in the newness of life. 

Doing this, the sins of the ages and past experiences be- 
long to us no longer. We have washed our robes and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb, for we have been willing to 
face the righteous judge, have accepted the judgment, offering 
full restitution, and shown a willingness to pay to the "utmost 
farthing." 

When we have complied with the eternal and unchangeable 
law, when we have washed (through repentance and grief) the 
soul in purity and godliness, we then stand "before the throne 
of God, and serve Him (through thoughts, desires and acts) 
day and night in the temple (the body which is the temple of 
the Living God) ; and "He that sitteth on the throne (the im- 
mortalized Soul) shall dwell with us, and we shall hunger no 
more, neither thirst any more." 

"For the Lamb (cleansed and freed soul) which is in the 
midst of the throne (Center of our being) shall feed us and shall 
lead us unto living fountains of water and God shall wipe away 
all tears from our eyes." 

It is immaterial how dark the past may have been, nor does 
it matter if the record of many ages and numerous lives is as 
an open book before us, for it is written: "Though your sins 
be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow." All that 
counts is our willingness to face the judge and accept the judg- 
ment, and a desire to undo as much of the undesirable as pos- 
sible, while repaying that which is not to be undone. 

All is within one's own self and power. 

We may develop soul power and attain Conscious Individ- 
uality, thus blotting out the record against us. 

The past has no power over us when enlightenment and 
understanding has been attained. The Fire purifies all. "Let 
the dead bury their dead," but let us be certain we are not in- 
debted to the dead. The Fire from Heaven, the Holy Ghost, 
has the potency to free lis from all that is base, but it cannot 



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wipe out Karma which we have created. This must be elimi- 
nated through service, good deeds, kindness and forgiveness, and 
Soul attainment. 

It is written: "God Himself will be with them, and be 
their God." There is then no more crying for earthly things, no 
more hunger for the fruits of the fleas, no more thirst for the 
waters of illusion and carnal desires, for all these shall have 
given way, having been transmuted into longings for that which 
is abiding and satisfying. This is not to be interpreted as in- 
dicating that the innocent pleasures and recreations are to be 
denied oneself. 

"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be 
his God, and he shall be my son." 

To the man who has overcome the desires and longings of 
the carnal self, no good or necessary thing is forbidden. It is 
only those who feel they must have certain things, thereby clear- 
ly indicating slavery to them, that the law prohibits. 

The Law is; yet no specific rules can be laid down for man 
to follow except that of right. 

God does not judge right or wrong for us. Judgment is 
within us. Our sense of right must indicate to us that which 
we should or should not do. Another cannot judge for us, nor 
judge us. We alone are the arbiters of our fate. 

Desire is strong within us because the flesh is strong. 

It is strong because of its visible manifestation. Yet man 
has not always been governed by the flesh, nor by the desires 
and appetites of the carnal self. 

Our duty is to analyze every thought and desire, and to 
pass judgment upon it by the light of the soul. 

What do you think? 

What have been your thoughts? 

What are your desires? Are they constructive or destruc- 
tive? 

Remember that the soul is nothing more nor less than your 



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own "accumulated experiences" and that all your longings and 
aspirations are thereby governed. 

The actions of the mind and body betray the experience 
of the soul and as "By their fruits ye shall know them" no man 
need sit in judgment upon us nor render a verdict. We do this 
daily, hourly, aye, minutely. 

Man knows when he has overcome. He is aware when 
tempted and has successfully resisted. He is able to judge the 
right from the wrong, the constructive from the destructive. No 
man has ever been so helpless, so blind, that he could not dis- 
tinguish between personal desire and indicated duty. 

Responsibility rests upon us here, now, in the present life 
on earth. The God within us cries out for unfoldment, for ex- 
pression. It struggles continually for freedom, and within us 
is the only power capable of leading the soul to Conscious In- 
dividuality, to perfection and peace. 

All conditions surrounding man (his environment), mental, 
moral and physical, have been builded by himself. 

Soul is the only reality. 

All evil existing in man is really of the soul. 

The mind that continually thinks evil thoughts is building 
the wicked soul, which is shrouded in darkness. 

Unbelief, mistrust, harsh and cruel judgment of others, 
builds a wall of destruction about the soul and destroys it. No 
man can fathom the soul of another, therefore, cannot under- 
stand the causation of acts, and as a consequence, has no au- 
thority to judge another. It is written that "the Father judgeth 
no man" how then can man be so arrogant as to take judgment 
of another upon himself? Finite man alone is conceited, self- 
righteous, presumptive. 

The soul is ever a living (manifesting) testimonial, for or 
against every individual. Thus it is written that Jesus said: 
"Judge not lest ye be judged," by the same judgment. 



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Blinded eyes cannot see the sun shining in the heavens, 
and all the beauties of life are as non-existent to them. Thus 
the deadened soul, the soul living in darkness, cannot see the 
goodness in others. They judge according to their own unclean- 
liness, for as they are themselves so see they others. 

Mind rules the manifesting universe. It governs because 
all it builds lives in the soul of the individual and manifests in 
material works, for it is not one soul, but many souls, working 
more or less in unity. Every man, woman and child is build- 
ing a world. We witness cities falling and earths torn asunder 
by upheavals of violence. People shudder and tremble. There 
are wars and rumors of war. Nations prepare to rise against 
nations. All because of the thoughts and desires of men who act 
uncomprehendingly. 

Continuously preparations are being made to guard and 
protect one against the other. All the while minds and thoughts 
and actions are defiantly hurling vibrations upon vibrations of 
antagonism and aggression one against the other; and foolish 
man continues to wonder why there is no peace. 

We question why empires fall or cities are destroyed, ever 
failing to recognize that these happenings are the self-invoked 
punishment of the souls inhabiting these places. We, our 
minds, create worlds, we likewise frequently make out of them 
places of desolation and abomination. 

The evil soul is heavier than the pure, just as stagnant, 
refuse-diluted water is heavier than the clear, pure spring water. 
A coarse brain is heavier than a finely fibred one; and the 
thoughts are in harmony with the mind. The coarse and gross 
of all material whether of mind, matter or merchandise, is 
heavier than that which is purified and refined. In the making 
of sugar from cane, we readily understand that the process of 
refining makes the product lighter, finer and sweeter. A pound 
of cane will not make a pound of the finished sweetening 
product. The coarse, crude material must first be eliminated, 
and the balance refined. 



168 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

So it is with the soul of man. 

The coarse, gross thoughts or vibrations of the mind are 
heavier than the ennobling and exalting thoughts of love, good- 
will and forgiveness. Where many evil souls congregate there 
is a heaviness, a depression which profoundly influences all 
who come within its circle. Thus evil nations are destroyed 
by their own power and force, by their own manifested mental 
influences. 

Babylon was not judged by God, for it is written: "The 
Father judgeth no man," but was judged by its own lustfulness. 
The minds of its inhabitants were saturated with lust, their 
manifestations judged, and brought judgment, upon themselves. 

Thus it is written: "He that looketh upon a woman to 
lust after her is guilty of adultery." He is guilty because his 
mind is an adulterous, lustful mind. 

Such a mind builds an adulterous, lustful soul. 

That soul, thus weighted, lives and bears record. Ultimate- 
ly it is forced to render judgment and to accept the verdict. 
Souls fall as do nations; not for the reason that God judges 
and destroys, but because the soul manifests that which it is, 
life or destruction. Babylon was lustful, due to its lustful in- 
dividual citizens. Through their thoughts, desires and acts 
they manifested lust. Passion of this nature is self -limited, and 
reaching the line of demarkation it "burns out," destroys itself. 

Truly it is written: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they 
shall see God," not because God blesses them, but by right of 
that which their purity builds. 



Faitk and Works 

Faith produces works while works are faith made manifest. 

Faith is in reality nothing less than sub-conscious thought. 
It is what we think within our innermost mental being. To have 
faith is to believe. 

The work we willingly do is that in which we have the 
greatest faith. It is the work of our faith or desire. When a 
man follows the non-good, he thereby publishes to the world 
what his thoughts and desires actually are. He indicates by 
his acts the things in which he has faith to bring him pleasure 
and profit. He plans and builds and lives in the not-good be- 
cause he has faith in the powers of evil. Each and every one 
of us demonstrate daily our faith by the works we do. 

We watch men in their planning and building and we see 
them manifesting their desires and constructing according to 
their faith. All they produce is the fruit of such faith. 

When the engineer builds a bridge it is because he believes 
(has faith), or is led to believe, that the bridge is a necessity, 
not alone to himself but to others. He plans and builds it in 
the firm conviction that it will supply a need. He has faith in 
both the need and the plan. He first thought of the bridge, then 
he planned it. He had faith in that which he thought, then 
worked according to his faith. The thought came to mind with 
an image of a bridge. The bridge is a thought. This is vis- 
ualization. He continued to think. The plan followed as part 
of his thought. The building followed his faith in himself as 
possessing the capability of constructing the bridge. This is 
thought, followed by faith, resulting in works. 

No man ever yet did any act if he did not believe (have 
faith) that it would be to his interest, either as bringing him 



170 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

pleasure or profit, so gaining an advantage for him. We except 
those deeds resulting from compulsion; — the force of the strong- 
er over the weaker, of necessity over choice. 

It is true that multitudes do countless deeds, acts and works, 
in which they have no faith, but they act because they believe 
that by so doing it will be to their benefit or advantage. They 
may not believe in the accomplishment itself, but they have ex- 
pectation in the results accruing to themselves, of that which 
they did. This is destructive selfishness. 

When a man is lazy, shiftless and shirks his duty, it is 
because he thinks himself happiest when idle. He has faith in 
just so much as he attempts to accomplish. If he undertakes 
nothing, it is because he has faith in nothing. His mind is in 
a state of inertia. He neither thinks deeply, nor believes in 
much. This is physical animalism. 

We are — just what our thoughts, or faith, makes us. 

We build soul according to our faith. The building is our 
workmanship. We, alone, can construct our temple. If we 
have no faith we will not attempt any building. Our souls be- 
tray the faith we possess, for they manifest the works we do 
daily. 

It is written that Paul taught: "Faith is the substance of 
things hoped for." The substance of the soul is faith; it is the 
thing hoped for. The greater our faith in the ultimate good, 
the more sublime will be the soul. 

When we hope and plan and build for peace we thereby 
clearly indicate that we have faith in our hope for peace. 

If we have faith in the desirability of health, we will think 
health and work for health. We have faith in the possibility 
of happiness when we constructively work to that end. 

Men may lie to us and deceive us, but if we think them 
true, that proves our faith in them, as likewise a faith in an 
ideal. If they deceive us, the loss or hurt to us will be but 
temporary. They ultimately pay the debt which they created 



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both for themselves and for us. Our faith may be betrayed but 
it cannot be abused. 

Every personality with an idea produces that idea in some 
form, and according to the strength of the faith in it; will ulti- 
mately be the materialization of it in some manifestation. 

It is utterly impossible to have an idea or thought for any 
length of time without its personification in some form. 
Thoughts make an impression both upon ourselves and the uni- 
versal whole. According to the strength of the thought will be 
the result. 

The man who does not manifest is inert of thought. He 
cannot succeed. He is a failure. He is one of those constantly 
imposed upon. He is thrust aside by the more energetic, active, 
virile individuals who are demonstrating faith in themselves. 

The man who is a failure never concentrates. Thoughts 
flit through his mind as water pours through a sieve. Thought 
finds no resting place within his mind. No impression is made 
on his mentality; lacking concentration, he does not "hold on" 
to any thought or desire sufficiently long to urge him to manifest. 

The efficient man portrays thought-potency in the energy 
which he displays in his works. He thinks ; he has faith in his 
ideas; he works according to his faith. He is doing that which 
he thinks — this is faith made manifest — it is the hope of reali- 
zation. 

The individual who stands aside for another, who fails to 
push ahead despite all obstacles and in the face of great odds, 
is displaying his lack of faith in the potency of desire — he is 
impotent. He fails to think constructively. He is not husband- 
ing energy. He lacks virility. He can scarcely be considered 
a man. If he labors for another, is denied freedom of thought 
and action, he again demonstrates the kind of faith he possesses. 
When he awakens to his weakness, when he commences to think 
for himself, and begins to develop faith in his capabilities, he 
will seek more remunerative employment; — he will demonstrate 
the growth attained. 



172 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Faith is not in something outside of ourselves, it is within 
ourselves, — in ourselves. It is our thought. It is our desire. 
It is written that Jesus said: "If ye had faith as the grain of 
a mustard seed ye could remove mountains." A mustard seed 
is comparatively small to begin with, but it may grow into vast 
proportions byjtjh jplicat ion_jpiLiigfilL Jesus did not say: "If 
you had faith in me as the grain of a mustard seed." He made 
a positive statement, clearly indicating that we must have faith 
in ourselves and in our power to accomplish. 

Faith in its relation to ourselves is much the same as the 
relation between a bar of steel and electricity. If we correctly 
prepare the bar and then charge it with electricity, it becomes 
a magnet. Thus it is with us; if we rightly open ourselves, 
there will be an influx of faith, and we will retain that faith 
and work accordingly. Unless we are prepared, we will scoff at 
man's masterpieces and judge them as worthless. 

As the grain of mustard seed may ultimately so duplicate 
itself as to fill a vast granary, so may our thoughts, many times 
compounded, become an all-powerful source of energy. A little 
faith may be developed into a potential energy sufficient to 
heal the sick, or to raise the dead. 

We may think many thoughts and yet not actually believe 
strongly enough to have faith in any of them. They may appear 
to us as mere fancies. According to the strength of the thought 
so is our faith, either strong or weak. We may have the thought 
of a great accomplishment and set it aside as a day dream. We 
have no faith in it. Another may have the identical thought, 
set to work with faith, and accomplish a seeming miracle. Many 
men have thought as deeply as Edison but discarded their 
thoughts as being "castles in the air." , Edison had faith in his 
thoughts and imaginings and is a natural miracle worker. "Ac- 
cording to thy faith so be it unto you." 

Faith is superficial or it is deep and abiding. 

When of little potency, it dies. If imbued with life, it con- 
tinually increases until it becomes mighty with power. 



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Jesus produced his works by his faith and by living as he 
believed. He taught in harmony with his thoughts and accord- 
ing to his faith. 

His faith in God was harmonious with his thoughts of the 
Father. 

He demonstrated his thoughts, his desires, and his faith 
by works he did — by the services he rendered mankind. 

As Jesus shewed unto men the purity of his desires and 
the greatness of his faith by his constructive efforts in man's 
behalf, so Judas Iscariot demonstrated his thoughts and desires 
by his deceitful, treacherous deeds. Here we have illustrated 
to us the two opposite poles swaying humanity. On the one 
side the constructive; on the other side the destructive. Accord- 
ing to the final results achieved by these two children of men, 
should be our own choice. The greatest lesson man can learn 
is shown by the ultimate end of these examplars; — one construc- 
tive, the other destructive. 

Judas followed the evil path because he thought that by 
it he might profit. His soul was in harmony with his thoughts 
and desires, and these urged him to act as he did. 

Many, foolishly, picture Judas as one who assisted Jesus 
in demonstrating truths and eternal life. This is an utterly 
false and delusive conception and is destructive to all who 
accept it. 

Judas was taught as fully as were the other disciples. To 
him was demonstrated the power of light and truth. The force 
of thought was made as plain to him as it was to the others. 
Judas had given evil domicile within his heart and instead of 
obtaining valuable lessons from all that Jesus taught and did, 
he sought only for that which might be criticised. 

It is written that Judas even found it in his deceitful soul 
to criticise the poor woman, who, in the goodness of her heart 
anointed Jesus complaining: "Why was not this ointment sold 
for three hundred pence and given to the poor?" Little did 
Judas care for the poor. All he had in mind was the money 



174 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

that might have been obtained from the sale of the ointment. 
There are countless numbers like him. To their minds men 
never perform unselfish deeds; and in the noblest purpose of 
such they seek for something to criticise. Destruction has an 
abiding place in the souls of these ignoble ones. Goodness is 
unknown to them. 

Judas was a betrayer and at heart a thief because he lacked 
faith in the possibility of good bringing a profit. He believed 
that only through selfish deeds would it be possible to reap a 
reward. The sale of honor, or the betrayal of a soul, meant 
nothing to him if it quickly remunerated him. 

Betrayers are not God-sent, nor are they God-ordained. 
God can manifest the desirability of goodness without the em- 
ployment of such evil principles and forces. He has no need of 
using the non-good wherewith to impress us with the eternalness 
of purity and exaltedness. 

Those who are evil at heart are ordained to their destruc- 
tive ministry by the malignant thoughts of their own minds. 
Righteousness is not betrayable by evil, because, like pure gold, 
it cannot be destroyed even when thrown into the fiery melting 
pot. 

Neither is it necessary for goodness to be helped in its 
manifestation, by the forces of the not-good. To admit other- 
wise would be to place evil on a pedestal with good. 

An evil thought never helped a human soul. 

An evil deed may be a means of distinguishing good from 
evil, just as light enables us to comprehend darkness, but it 
never did and never will help goodness to attain unto its own — 
that is, righteousness. 

It is unnecessary for man to grovel in the dust and the 
slime in order to awaken his mind and soul to goodness and 
purity. 

Nor is the soul awakened by an endless number of incarna- 
tions into evil environments. Evolution helps it but little. 

If a man begins his earth journey with a wrong concep- 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 175 

tion, and continues to cling to the not-good, he ultimately de- 
stroys himself or forces his soul to return time and again to 
suffer the Karmic law. 

He does not awaken by continuously committing wrongs, 
though it is possible that the resultant suffering may arouse him 
to a quest for the cause. 

Evil does not induce suffering of the soul until the con- 
science awakens. There may be much pain of the flesh; phys- 
ical ills and bodily sores, but the suffering soul does not com- 
mence to question until there is an aroused conscience to accuse. 
The man who is thoroughly evil cares nothing for the sorrows 
and miseries of others so long as these do not bring him loss. 
He is selfish. The soul is asleep or dead. The conscience is so 
covered with debris that its voice remains unheard. 

One intense desire for truth, for something better and 
nobler than formerly known, awakens the soul, no matter how 
much evil man may have committed. 

When the desire is born, then, and not till then, does the 
soul commence to suffer for the sins of the personality in whom 
it finds a temporary abiding place. 

Judas was evil. It was his incarnated viciousness that 
betrayed his master — his teacher. Not all Judases are dead. 
There are still many among the living. The profiteers of that 
day, whose business, profession or vocation were affected by the 
master's teachings, bought Judas with silver. He was not the 
first, nor yet the last, to barter a soul for love of money. Thous- 
ands are committing the same deed daily. 

Judas thought to destroy. He destroyed only himself. He 
demonstrated the kind of mind, heart and soul within himself. 
After he had betrayed his teacher his conscience was awakened. 
Then he "went and hanged himself." He at last paid to "the 
utmost farthing" for all the evil resident within himself. * 



*A short time prior to the printing of the foregoing, one who 
had been a student in the Great School, had been trusted by his 
teacher, and had then sought to betray and destroy as did Judas, 
shot himself, so paying the extreme penalty for his attempted 
treachery. The laws of the past are the laws of the present. 



176 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Evil does not suffer. 

Good does not suffer. 

It is the soul of man that pays the penalty to the "utmost 
farthing" for any attempted infringement of the law. 

The body is made to suffer for the evils of the mind. It is 
material, and upon it are impressed destroying thoughts, desires 
and acts. 

The body is being filled with disease and weakness from 
the moment of the first disobedience to the absolute law. The 
physical manifests all the evils passing through the mentality. 

The soul begins to suffer only when it awakens to its 
responsibility. After the soul attains Conscious Individuality 
and freely accepts its responsibility, its sufferance ends. It 
knows, it accepts, and it works to free itself. 

Jesus suffered no more after he had arisen from the tomb. 
With the passing of the earth, earthy, he had attained supremacy 
over the flesh and thereby gained his freedom. 

Soul development, the unfoldment of the God-born entity 
within, is the only way of attaining Conscious Individuality. 
Neither creed nor dogma can help the soul except as an incen- 
tive to nobler thought, exalted desire, and greater effort. 

Man may reincarnate ten thousand times and yet be no 
nearer the saving truths at the last one, than at the first one. 

Unfoldment, leading to illumination, is the only saving 
power. There is no other way. 

The world is to be enlightened, not through evolution, for 
that is only of the material, but through development — the 
growth of the soul. 

Desire begins with thought; development with a longing for 
that which is higher, nobler and exalted. 

A thought is embryonic desire. 

Thoughts of evil are desires for carnal pleasure or selfish 
profit. No man thinks evil long before he desires and longs to 
commit it. 

Thoughts of good frequently coming to the mind, result in 



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desire for the constructive. No man can often think aspiration- 
ally without shortly desiring to attain to greater heights. 

Faith in the possibility of obtaining benefits through the 
non-good, induces evil action. Faith in the good as a desirable 
quality will ultimately urge the mind to constructive action. 

We believe as we inwardly think. A superficial, fleeting 
thought has little action and less influence. Its impression is 
light and quickly passing. We consider a rose as beautiful be- 
cause we think it so. Its name seldom influences our choice. 

A man who does not think for himself may live through 
many stages of evolution without attaining to godly desires. 

Another, having gained freedom from mental bondage, and 
accepting authority, may quickly learn to know much of life, 
and develop great soul growth within a comparatively short time. 
Consequently, the old soul is not always the more advanced, 
ennobled soul. Thus "the last shall be first while the first shall 
be last." 

Many old souls are filled with evil. With these many 
births count for naught unless the soul is awakened to the saving 
truths and elects to follow the dictates of truth. 

"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; while that which 
is born of the spirit remains spirit." 

Though the soul is reincarnated again and again in a house 
of flesh it is of the flesh until reborn of the spirit. 

It is written: "No man hath ascended up to heaven, but 
that he came down from heaven, even the son of man which is 
in heaven." 

Man's soul is direct from the God-head. It has not risen 
from the rocks, the herbs, nor the animals, as some would have 
us believe. "No man ascended but he that comes down from 
heaven." All souls primarily came from heaven. These souls 
incarnated into physical bodies so that they might have a vehicle 
through which to learn and to express. No man is foolish 
enough to claim that the body was created in the heavens. It 
is nowhere so written. How man's body developed is of little 



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moment; being here considered as the means of helping the soul 
to its destined end. 

Man's soul is composed of the elements of the Fire, of the 
Divinity. It is a Spark from the universal Creator. "God be- 
came flesh and dwelt among us (the earth)." The mind that 
awakens and builds the soul is creating an image, a prototype, 
of the Maker. It is thus able to draw to itself knowledge and 
power. Wisdom is its heritage. 

To begin the work requires a certain amount of faith in 
the possibility of accomplishment. To have faith is to trust. 
To trust is to attempt the attainment of that which is promised 
as the result of effort. 

The soul of man was primarily composed of air, water and 
fire, and could know neither pain nor joy, because it was lacking 
the physical vehicle. The soul entered the material form and 
through it learned to know joy from sorrow, pleasure from pain, 
and gain from loss. Having descended, it may, through effort, 
again ascend. This requires recreation of his entire being be- 
cause through the "fall" man took upon himself that which has 
always been gross. This dense form must be transmuted; must 
pass through the fire; must become spiritualized. 

He who has obtained the knowledge, has the power to 
create; while he who is able to produce has the wisdom of the 
laws and may do the works of the soul. 

When we have faith we believe. We trust. Our thoughts 
and our desires are then moulded in harmony with the music 
of the spheres. This is faith. Our faith will lead us to works. 
Our works will finally bring us unto salvation. This is salva- 
tion by faith, through works. 

While man believes that evolution alone has saving power, 
he will make no serious attempt to awaken the divinity within 
himself; may not even believe such exists. He will continue to 
evolve the personality; the soul, the individuality, will continue 
to sleep the sleep of the ages. 

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than it was a thousand years past. It has gained much external 
knowledge. It has developed mentally. Many discoveries have 
added to the ease and the pleasures of man, but the minds of 
men are not a whit more ennobled, nor are the souls more de- 
veloped, than they were in days long agone. 

This mundane plane is no better for being crowded with 
mental giants who use their mentality in labors of destruction 
and in planning the slavery of the masses. Sickness, misery, 
degradation and other evils are as rampant to-day as ever, and 
in proportion to numbers, far more destructive than eighteen 
hundred years ago. Man has made little real progress. Figura- 
tively speaking, God weeps upon His throne and the innocent 
are the prey of the strong and wicked. Even legitimate moth- 
ers are to be deprived of their children by self-appointed leaders 
of the blind ; while women who are not versed in the degradation 
of the age and give birth to more children than they can easily 
support, are to be "denuded of their creative power." (*) Truly 
"God weeps upon His throne because of the folly of the self- 
righteous. Self-abortionists command those who would obey 
the divine fiat to 'replenish the earth' by their 'thou shalt 
not.' " (*) 



♦Denver, Colo., Nov. 28 (A. P.) — Sitting in the juvenile court 
here today, Judge Royal Graham of Georgetown recommended 
for Mrs. Clyde Cassidente of Denver an operation that would 
make it impossible for her to bear any more children. Mrs. 
Cassidente, who already is the mother of five (children), was 
haled before the Judge on complaint of Denver social workers (title 
ours) to show cause why her children should not be taken from 
her, the complaint alleging that the family home was filthy and 
that the children had been neglected and were undernourished. 

"Dr Ray Sunderland, testifying in the case, said he believed 
conditions at the Cassidente home were the result of the mother 
bearing children too fast. 

"What would you suggest as a remedy?" asked Judge Gra- 
ham. 

"That Mrs. Cassidente submit to a sterlizing operation," re- 
plied Dr. Sunderland. 

"I will continue this case until January 10th," the judge an- 



180 THE SCI ENCE OF THE SOUL 

The only bright light in the heavens is the star casting 
before men the shadow of possible relief through the demonstra- 
tion of the power of the mind over matter. Thus far this has 
been working independently of the Science of the Soul. 

God could not have become flesh had He continued to dwell 
in mind alone. God is soul. He labors with men to become 
Conscious Souls. He employs both mind and body to create 
the illuminated soul — the Individualized Consciousness. 

Mental science will demonstrate to the human family 
greater signs and wonders than those yet attempted. It will 
manifest the full and complete power of an awakened mind. It 
will attain its zenith in the not distant future, but before it 



nounced, "and in the meantime I want the doctor's suggestion 
carried out." 

Dr. Sunderland stated that the husband of Mrs. Cassidente, 
who is a notary public and an Italian interpreter, already had 
agreed to permit his wife to submit to such an operation." 
— Newspaper item. 

Through the newspapers Judge Graham has denied ordering 
such an operation. Thousands of clippings before us indicate 
that the real thinkers, workers and humanitarians throughout 
the world are unstinted in their condemnation, aye, loathing, of 
these social workers and the self-glorifying doctor of medicine. 

We proclaim ourselves a Christian nation, i. e., followers of 
the teachings of Jesus, the lowly Nazerene. We spend fortunes 
sending missionaries to foreign countries to convert heathens, 
but where, and in what part of the text, is there anything author- 
izing super-heathenish practices such as those recommended 
above? Did Jesus or any of the other Avatars anywhere indicate 
that the poor should be denuded of their virility, or did he speci- 
fically command they should be fed. Who deserves sterilization 
— the woman who obeys the command of Him whom men claim 
to follow, or those social workers and medical graduates who are 
preying upon the ignorance and weakness of the people? Our 
prophecy is, that within a few years the women of America who 
have borne children will sweep every social and welfare worker, 
together with the grafting unsuccessful medical practitioners, 
out of existence. That they will form committees of mothers 
and use the millions of money now worse than wasted, to feed 
and clothe poor mothers and their children. "Be thou fruitful 
and replenish the earth, and I, thy God, will be with thee and 
bless thee." Evidently even the Godhead did not foresee the 
birth of the many human ghouls or assuredly He would have 
voiced a just sentence upon fh$iv unholy heads. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 181 

has reached its ultimate it will demonstrate forces of good and 
evil beyond the comprehension of men. Mental science is the 
way-shower, the light-bearer, the John the Baptist, of the Soul — 
the Conscious Individuality. 

Mind dies when the body enters the sleep that knows no 
waking. 

The soul — the work of the mind — only continues to live. 

The Science of the Soul, its power of building, working 
and illuminating, will shortly foreshadow a power undreamed 
of by men. 

The mind may build an evil image, a house of corruption, 
and an entity that is potent for destruction. The soul can build 
only for good; when it attempts to create non-good, it destroys 
itself. 

This is the doctrine of the Consuming Fire. It is the Holy 
Ghost. It is the Comforter spoken of by Jesus and other philo- 
sophers. 

The philosophy of the Soul opens the spiritual age. It is 
the foreshadowing of the Individualized Christos, who is to be 
resurrected in all men. It is he who will baptize with fire — 
either unto eternal life or unto utter destruction. Woe unto him 
upon whom falls the descending Fire and who is unprepared 
to receive it! 

According to their faith will men work. — "By their fruits 
shall ye know them." 



The Awakened Soul 

The awakened soul can never die. When the mortal, dying, 
sin-loving man changes, — when he begins to think thoughts that 
cleanse his being and elevate him, he is putting on immortality. 
He cannot die, for the conscious soul knows no death. There is 
no death to the changed, fire-cleansed, M\h charged man. Death 
is swallowed up in victory. 

Through the ^th mysteries the evil in man reveals itself. 
Man stands face to face with himself and he judges himself 
impartially and without excuse. All the evils and weaknesses 
are read as one reads the pages of an open book. Subterfuges 
are no longer sought. Excuses not made. Man is as he is. His 
life's history is written in letters of fire, — the fire that must be 
beheld, and scourges to the quick. For "the Holy Ghost is also 
a witness to us;" and "this is the covenant that I will make 
with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my 
laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and 
their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." 



Healing 



The healing by adepts and masters, of whom Apollonius of 
Tyana was one, as also by Jesus, was accomplished by making 
use of the highest forces known to man. 

This potential energy is the iEth. 

It is the same essence that Lord Bulwer Lytton termed the 
Vril. It is that which the Philosophers and Alchemists named 
the "Elixir of Youth" and "Philosopher's Stone." 

Jesus employed this dynamic energy in his work of healing. 

Members of many cults have in the past, and do now, make 
use of this force to a certain extent, but it is only the masters, 
those who have attained Conscious Individuality and Illumina- 
tion, who know what the iEth is and how to make use of it. 

The Fires of the Conscious Soul are called the ^Eth Fire. 

The TEih is a transmutation of the Ozone and Oxygen 
breathed into the lungs and consciously drawn over the nervous 
system to the creative center — the Pelvic Brain. There it is 
transmuted into Creative and Regenerative energy; thence trans- 
ferred, through a process known to the Initiate, to the Soul 
Center, and from the Soul Center to the sufferer by means of 
the nerves, by mental effort through the medium of eyes and 
hands. 

The JEth is the union of the Illuminated Mind Forces and 
Awakened Soul Fires. 

The interchange, or exchange, of Awakened Mind Forces 
and Illuminated Soul Fires, constitutes the JEth. or Christie- 
Power. 

Every true Neophyte in the Secret Schools is taught this 
method of development, including the transmutation of the 



184 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Oxygen-Ozone- Creative energy, into ^Eth Fires, as well as its 
application in the process of "burning out" human ailments. 

Many mental, or mind healers have employed the mental 
forces in the treatment of disease. These have been successful 
in many cases, but they have found that in the majority of in- 
stances these forces fail to reach the seat of the trouble. 

They have never been fully instructed in the accumulation 
and transmutation of the crude energies, into the refined essen- 
ces and were thus seriously handicapped in their efforts to re- 
lieve suffering. 

Suggestion and mind activity will relieve and even eradicate 
many mental and imaginary ills; but where there is congestion 
or accumulation of morbid material, it is almost always certain 
to fail. 

The Mentalists undoubtedly understand many of the laws 
governing mind action, and have applied these forces under a 
variety of names such as Divine Healing, Christian Healing, 
Christian Science Healing, and divers other nomenclatures, but 
the healing by means of the Soul Fires has been a mystery to 
all of them. 

Magnetists, on the contrary, have paid slight attention to 
the potency of suggestion and the subtlety of the mind in the 
relief of ailments, and have attempted to relieve all human ills 
by means of animal and material magnetic currents. Mesmer 
possibly being the greatest authority on its laws and usages. 

The magnetic force of man is analogous to, or similar, to 
the magnetism in the heavenly bodies, in the air and in the 
earth and unquestionably does exert a powerful influence on 
humanity generally. 

Many of the magnetists believed magnetism to be a fluid, 
that this can be transferred from one person to another, and 
that even a healthy animal may exert a beneficial affect upon 
a sickly human. We have no quarrel with these opinions. In 
the main they are true and have their usages, but they must not 
be considered as the Ne Plus Ultra of all power. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 185 

Magnetism was the first force to be discovered by the 
modern Curists. It is more natural to man than any other 
force of its nature. It is denser than ether, consequently is 
iflore readily transferred or transmitted to the sufferer by means 
of the touch. 

When the Mentalists discovered the power of suggestion 
and the influence which one mind may exert over another, they 
were a step in advance of the Magnetists, but they made one 
serious mistake. They ignored the Magnetic law, refusing to 
combine it with their own discoveries; thus often failing, where 
success might readily have been achieved. 

Masters of the TEih ignore neither the power of suggestion, 
the influence of the mind, nor the magnetic energy. They recog- 
nize all three and frequently apply them, but in so doing they 
likewise combine the higher potency with these other three. 
They make of them vehicles, or mediums, through which, or 
over which, or by which, the ^Eth forces may be the more 
readily applied. 

^Eth healing is therefore the highest type of non-mechanical, 
non-material, non-medicinal healing. 

It is the true Christie method for the relief of the ailing. 
It was the potential energy employed by both Jesus and Apol- 
lonius of Tyana. 

The Initiate knows that he possesses the power. He de- 
velops it consciously. As he progresses under the careful guard- 
ianship of a master-teacher he attains the knowledge of every 
step. 'The force becomes so powerful that he can see it.— This 
is not difficult of comprehension when the method of proceedure 
is grasped. 

Mind is the Builder of the Soul. 

The student consciously — with effort — awakens the mind 
to saving truths. 

Soul is that which the mind builds. 

The aspirant is never in doubt because he always knows 
what kind of thoughts he thinks, and what desires are in his 



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heart ; likewise, is he aware of every effort made to attain. 

Mind force and Soul force, through their intermingling and 
marriage create the jEth. 

The Neophyte will know when this Spiritual marriage 
takes place because, through a method of reflection, he is en- 
abled to see these iEth Fires. 

JEth. — is the Illuminated Mind forces united to the Fires of 
the Awakened Soul — It is the Holy Ghost consciously received 
within the bosom of the Temple — King Solomon's Temple. 

There is no guess work possible. 

There can be no mistake due to a lack of knowledge. To 
infuse the ^Eth Fires into the diseased organism is extremely 
simple. No harm can be done and it does not interfere in the 
least with the application of any material substances, or the 
ingestion of medical agencies. 

The ^Eth, being a refined fire, is light and luminous. It is 
an active, positive principle. It is electrical, it is magnetic, it is 
volatile, yet fixed. It can penetrate all bodies as readily as the 
electrical current can traverse the copper wire. 

The Magnetists have discovered the laws governing mag- 
netism. The Mentalists have solved the potencies of the human 
will, to a degree. The third principle or law, which is the ^Eth 
is known to but few. It is the induction of the electric (mind) 
into the magnetic and the production of the third principle — 
but this must be accomplished in a living body. 

The Unity of the Father (mind) and the Son (Soul), 
creates the Christos or Holy Ghost (Consuming Fire). The 
Holy Ghost is the Fire of the Soul. It is not the Soul itself, 
any more than the steel is the magnetic potency, but it is the 
fire that descends from heaven and baptizes the soul. 

Why have the Magnetists failed in numerous cases and 
under certain conditions? 

Because, certain bodies and conditions of the diseased 
bodies are too dense and compact to admit of the thorough in- 
duction of the magnetism. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 187 

Gross, heavy, coarse, magnetic substances require heavier 
inductions than the finer ones. Thus certain kinds of steel are 
more difficult to magnetize than others, and will not retain the 
magnetic force, nor the vibrations, as long as will others. 

With human bodies it is the same. The poisons and chem- 
icalization of certain gases in the system, make it antagonistic 
and more difficult for the induction of magnetism, than bodies 
finer and more receptive. 

The healing vibrations of the Mentalists are lighter and 
more penetrating than those of the Magnetists. These healers 
employ the etheric energy or activity of the positive principle of 
the mind. However, both the Magnetists and Mentalists have 
failed to relieve countless cases. There are diseases which will 
not yield to mental treatment as there are those which will not 
respond to manipulations or magnetic treatments. 

Magnetic treatment is through manipulations because mag- 
netism must be induced by force. The relaxation of the diseased 
body makes it more or less receptive to the induction of mag- 
netism. The true magnetist understands the whole law and 
applies it accordingly. 

Mental science, or mind healing, is electrical. The charges 
of mental vibrations, or electrical currents, are sent through the 
system, or the diseased portions, by mental affirmations of posi- 
tive thought. 

This is the John the Baptist; the baptism by water. The 
greater has followed as was prophesied. It is the baptism by 
Fire or the Holy Ghost. It is the Science of the Soul — the Mth, 
taught and practiced by the masters. 

The mental law united with the spiritual law produces the 
greater — the Third Degree. It is the potency of the Godhead. 

It is written that Jesus said: "Baptize them in the name 
of the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost." That is, in the power 
of the Three. 

The first principle of the law of healing is clearly stated 
in the first chapter of Acts : 



188 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

"These all continued with one accord (harmony in mind 
and soul), in prayer (desire or aspiration), and supplication." 

"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were 
all with one accord and in one place." 

Every attribute of the being agrees in one Desire, one Con- 
viction, and one purpose. 

"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a 
rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were 
sitting. 

"And there appeared unto them cloven tongues as of fire, 
and it sat upon each of them." 

This was the union — the co-ordination — of mind, and soul 
and the Holy Ghost. The Living Fire — was born of the Union. 

It is written: "Jesus commanded them that they should 
not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the 
Father, which saith he, ye have heard of me." 

"For John truly baptizes with water (mind); but ye shall 
be baptized with the Holy Ghost (the Illumination) not many 
days hence." 

The Christos must be accepted, conceived in the soul and 
born within before the promise is fulfilled. When the divine 
conception occurs, knowledge begins to "spring up as from a 
fountain" within the aspirant. The mind must arouse the will, 
and send forth to the soul the creative vibration, where it will 
be received and stored until the time of the birth of the Con- 
sciousness. 

Centripetal 

MIND Seeking 
Desiring 
Centrifugal 

WILL Reactionary 
Movement 

Resulting Activity Soul. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 189 

This wedding of mind and soul brings forth the birth — 
the Holy Ghost, — the Soul's Illumination. 

Hence the promise: "When he doth appear we shall be 
like him, for we shall see him as he is." 

This is likewise the birth of the iEth potency; — the force 
which was applied and demonstrated by Jesus and other masters 
before him. 

All of them understood the hidden secrets of nature, and 
made them subservient. 

The possibility of developing this potential energy is within 
the grasp of all men. It is but needful for them to awaken and 
J to seek the Path. 

The inculcation of these mighty, saving truths, and the 
methods of development, has been peculiarly the mission of but 
two august Fraternities. 

To be enabled to successfully use and demonstrate the iEth 
potency, even after it is developed, demands a knowledge of the 
law governing the application. The healer must be able to dis- 
cover the source of the illness and suffering, by means of psycho- 
analysis, and having found the source of the illness, remove the 
cause and apply the remedy. 

There is no greater power than the ^Eth. 

All is fire and fire is the life and the soul of man; yet few 
men can comprehend this. 

Mind creates or builds soul; soul inspires mind, illumin- 
ates it and exchanges forces with it. 

The Neophyte is instructed in the control of the fire, and 
its transmutation into the ^Eth. 

After a time the aspirant can see the Fire — as did Moses 
see the fire in the burning bush — can control it, and apply it as 
a healing power. 

Mind is a part of God, but the soul is all of God. The 
whole is greater than a part. 



190 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

God is soul, and all of soul is God. The soul inherits 
sonship and life eternal. Before the soul can attain Immortal- 
ity, it must be brought to Conscious Individuality. Without 
this birth the soul cannot inherit unity and eternity. 

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

Mind, Matter, Soul. 

How can these be transmuted into the JEth, the Living 
Fire? 

When the neophyte attains the first stage of development 
he is baptized with water — Mental Awakening — with the power 
to be electrical, creative, and giving. 

His second stage is the baptism with Fire — the Holy Ghost 
— the Soul's Illumination. 

The third stage is the attainment of sonship — at-one-ment 
— Conscious Individuality. 

His attainment through his development and baptism is 
unto "truth and wisdom." 

It is the inheritance of the sword which guards the gates 
of the Garden of Eden. It is the circle of the ancients repre- 
sented by the Symbol of Life. 

The love and marriage of the mind and soul is the nuptial 
of the Lamb and the Church. 

The Mind — the builder — loves that which it has builded. 
Soul. 

The Soul — the building — loves its own architect and 
builder. 



Tke AEtk Potency 



Love is the foundation of life. 

It is the key to the exalted, youthful, continued, successful 
phase of life. 

Love is not of the material, nor of the earth, earthly. The 
lustful soul does not really love, it feels only desire. 

Love is the highest vibration known to the human mind, 
heart and soul; it is the Hghest potency. It is in truth the 
"light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world." 

To develop the ^Eth we must learn to comprehend and feel 
love. We must desire, with all our mind and heart to express 
love. This it is to know the Christ. 

Man cannot really understand love until he has purified 
the mind and freed the soul of evil. 

As long as man lives in the world of matter he cannot 
escape from all temptations, strife and suffering; but he can flee 
from all that is evil. 

He possesses the power to resist sin. Sin is sickness. The 
person who commits sin contaminates the soul, and this is mani- 
fested in sickness or misfortune. 

Through the ^Eth, this evil is consumed, for this reason 
the iEth Fires are all potent in eliminating illness from the 
human body — it establishes love in the soul, so freeing it from 
evil. 

It is written: "Know ye not that unrighteousness shall 
not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither 
fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor 
abusers of themselves with mankind. 



192 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

"Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor 
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." 

With this list of the evils before him, can man claim to 
misunderstand? Is it not all-inclusive? He, in whose soul 
there is place for even one of these, is thereby contaminated 
throughout his being — he is sick of soul. As the iEth is devel- 
oped, through the medium or intercession of love, the evil is 
burned up, transmuted, and health results. 

These are the greater sins and are continually a beacon 
light to all, for their effects are manifested daily. There are 
countless lesser evils, not so readily recognized. The monster 
that ofttimes enslaves us and retards us in reaching the goal, is 
frequently elusive, because we think him insignificant. 

Search deeply within yourself. Cleanse the soul and purify 
it by the fires of the heavens. If the spirit of him that raised 
Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then the spirit that raised 
the Christ in Jesus from sleep, shall also quicken your mortal 
body and free it from its weakness. 

"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye 
through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall 
live. 

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are 
the sons of God. 

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we 
are (may become) the children of God." 

He who would utilize the JEth. in freeing himself from 
weakness and sickness, or employ it in helping others to free- 
dom, must identify himself, through becoming Consciously In- 
dividualized, with the manifesting Spirit of God. Through 
the jEth Fires, we become fully conscious that the "Spirit of 
God is witness with our spirit," and we shall know what this 
spirit is. 

The Scripture which we all profess to believe, informs us, 
times without number, that he, the Christ, will manifest himself 
to us. That we shall see him — the Christ (our own Consciously 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 193 

Individualized Soul) as he is. There are those who have be- 
lieved, and who have been thus blessed. Many others have 
seen wondrous deeds manifested, but have not been face to face 
with him. They believe that they have witnessed, but they do 
not know. 

I may accomplish a great work in the world and you may 
frequently hear of me, yet not see me. 

If your desire is great enough and you truly wish to see 
me, then you will come to me, and see me as I really am. 

You would not care to see another, and would not be satis- 
fied to live in uncertainty and doubt. You would seek to have 
communion with me. 

Thus it is with the seeking soul. Nothing will satisfy it 
but to stand face to face with — itself. Whereas before it be- 
lieved, now it shall know. 

Men claim to be seeking the Christ. They profess to be- 
lieve in the promises of a dead past, but they manifest little 
effort in their search. Many are looking for him in the desert, 
others in the wilderness and the mountains. They claim to be- 
lieve, yet their minds do not comprehend the oft repeated state- 
ments in the Biblical texts that "He is in you." "We may know 
him and see him as he is," and ignore the glorious promise "You 
may become like him." 

When Jesus taught these saving truths, he brought light 
unto darkness. He pointed the Way for men to travel. If 
humanity will not accept, will not seek, will not live so as to 
manifest, and thereby come to know the Christos, — the living 
Soul, then his mission, as that of other great teachers before 
him, will have been in vain. 

It is written John taught: "Hereby know ye the spirit of 
God. Every spirit that confesseth (manifests) that Jesus Christ 
is come in the flesh, is of God." 

Jesus never taught denial nor destruction of the flesh. He 
inculcated the purification of the body. 

The material substance can be purified and made holy and 



194 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

acceptable to the Father. Were it unnecessary to possess a 
physical body then the soul of man never would have incarnated 
into one. 

Man must preserve, protect and guard the body as care- 
fully as the soul. If we have truly awakened from our sleep 
of ignorance, then we aspire to save the soul, to free it from its 
bondage; yet we feel that we may do with the body as we please; 
not cognizant of the fact that it must be purified and elevated, 
if it is to be inhabited by a clean and exalted soul. A neat, tidy, 
thrifty housewife refuses to dwell in a dirty, neglected house. 
Why should we expect more of the soul? 

We judge the housekeeper by the appearance of her home. 
The soul is judged by the body it inhabits. 

The first necessity is for the aspirant to master housekeep- 
ing in his own body. To free the mind of all carnal, debasing 
and destructive thoughts; substituting the exalted, creative and 
constructive desires; thereby starting those fires which will con- 
sume the base and ignoble and create the ^Eth. 

It is written: "The sun of righteousness shall arise with 
healing on its wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as 
calves in the stall." 

The sun of righteousness — fires of life— will be aroused 
when we transmute all that is base into the living fire. It is 
this fire, — this iEth energy, which has healing on its wings. 
The Illuminated soul is symbolized by the winged globe. The 
globe is a sphere of fire, the wings are the forces, or poles, of 
this fire and, whoso is covered by them shall be saved. 

The JEth cannot fail in the relief of the distressed, if the 
one through whom it manifests, is possessed of knowledge. This 
potential energy cannot be misused. To attempt it is to destroy 
the self. It cannot be abused, because he who will not "go and 
sin no more" (give up habits of evil), cannot thereby be healed. 

He who seeks to attain the ^Eth potency must not make 
the mistake of believing that he can employ its energy before h^ 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 195 

has developed it within himself. He then knows that he has 
accomplished the Work by being able to see it. 

The iEth is a light. It is a fire. It contains within itself 
all the elements for healing the diseases that flesh is heir to, 
because in it are all the potencies of life. 

The mind creates and solidifies the thoughts into electrical 
forces. These forces charging through the mind are received by 
the soul and they create a fire. The soul retains, and stores, 
these fiery, or healing forces until they are to be used. In a 
second these vibrations of healing may be sent throughout the 
self-body, or over the nervous system of the sufferer. 

The operator does not concentrate on the patient. 

He draws the constructive vibrations from their reservoir 
and transfers them to the location of the disease in the patient 
and the fires consume the afflicted cells. 

The patient must, however, be willing to begin thinking 
correctly and constructively, and commence to live a life of 
purity and cleanliness. "Old vessels must not be filled with 
new wine." Degraded minds and degenerate bodies cannot 
retain the ^Eth fires. 

It must be clearly understood however, that when an ail- 
ment is due entirely to Karmic law, nothing can be done except 
to help the patient to free himself from the penalty. 

The iEth operator can never abuse his powers, nor can he 
misuse the energy. To attempt it, is to destroy the soul itself. 

In it there is no malicious animal magnetism, neither is 
there danger of black magic. 

This is the Christie — spiritual healing. It cannot be 
imitated by pretenders. 

The sufferer is safe in the hands of such an operator. 

The JEth. potency cannot be acquired from books nor from 
manuscripts. The teacher can instruct, guard, guide and pro- 
tect the aspirant, but the essence of Soul Science cannot be at- 
tained except through personal effort — through inner growth. 

It is not possible to gain power by reading a course of 



196 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

instructions and by memorizing a few rules on concentration, 
suggestion and the laying on of hands. The neophyte must 
create the vibrations of healing within himself. He must de- 
velop the Essence of Life. He must distil the Elixir of Youth 
in his own individual laboratory. 

It has been, and yet is, an accursed idea that centuries 
past, one man, or twelve men, were able to cast out demons and 
heal disease, and that this power then existing, is now lost. 

The Light of the world never sets — unless the world itself 
is destroyed. 

The currents that heal are identical with the life of all men. 

The vibrations that "bring healing on their wings," like- 
wise contain within themselves the essence of love, of happiness, 
of success and of youth and immortality. 

God, and all He created is the same to-day as in the day 
that He created it. Man has changed, not God. Man has 
allowed himself to be enshrouded in ignorance and foolishly 
thinks that God has hidden His face. 

In beautiful phrases men tell us that God is life. 

Can they tell us where God is; and that if God is Life 
why men suffer and die? 

God is above us because He is greater than we. 

God is within us, but we fail to recognize him. 

The knowable, loving, unchanging God, is within us. He 
is the life of us. He is the breath, the sight, and the harmony 
within us. 

Man cannot feel, know, or realize God's presence until he 
has first mentally awakened, and has engaged his new under- 
standing in the arousing and building of his own soul. When 
finally the process is completed, then does he know, not merely 
believe, that God is within; that man truly is the temple of the 
living — not a far-off dead — God. This is the new birth. 

"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things 
are passed away; behold all things are become new, and all 
things are of God." 



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The ^Eth is the fire of the soul. It consumes all that is 
gross, earthly and evil. Through this burning up — transmuta- 
tion, the old things must give way (be changed) into the new, 
and man "becomes a living soul." 

"He breathed on them; and said unto them, receive ye the 
Holy Ghost." 

"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began 
to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance." 

The aspirant entering the Secret Schools is taught how to 
think and desire; how to breathe in the ozone and oxygen; how 
to transmute them into the 7Eth Fires. When this is accom- 
plished, he is filled with the Holy Ghost. 

It is not written that any of the disciples could heal the 
sick until they had been "breathed upon" with the spirit of the 
Holy Ghost. Not until they had seen the spirit of the fire 
"descend from heaven" did they possess the power to do the 
works of the Master. 

Many of the healers of the present day look upon their 
work as a business or profession. They take no thought of the 
development of the soul. They have not learned to hear from 
the soul. They have attained no farther than the mind, and 
mind is but temporary and must give way to the "greater that 
is to come." 

This "greater," the jEth, is the purification of both mind 
and soul, and is the healing power drawn from the union of the 
two. This wedding of the mind and soul creates life; quickens 
and generates life for all. It is the greatest that mind and soul 
can offer. 

"He was in the world and the world was made by him, 
and the world knew him not. 

"He is in you and you were made by him and you know 
him not. 

"He came to his own, and his own received him not." 

He has come to you, time and again, but you refused to 



198 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

see him. You have failed to lift up the veil; failed to seek, and 
seeking not, he passed you by. 

All but the very few, fail to realize the importance of the 
development of the soul. This is due to false philosophies and 
dogmatic religious inculcations. The soul is the throne of God 
— the "temple not made with hands," and as long as man con- 
tinues to sleep the sleep of death, he cannot reach immortality; 
for to such "he came but they knew him not." 

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to 
become the sons of God." 

Greater promise never was made. They who receive him 
are the ones who awaken from their sleep; who commence to 
think, desire and work constructively. These build the soul. 
They arouse the dozing giant within. The soul becomes a 
roaring flame. So are created (become) the sons of God. 

The sons of God, are born — developed, of God — in the 
Soul. 

Through the bringing into Consciousness of the Soul and 
the development of the iEth creative fires, the aspirant attains 
to the knowledge of all the planes of the Hierarchies, Initiates, 
and the gods. 

The neophyte finds a difficult path before him. One 
strewn with thorns, and inevitably leading to the cross; but 
without the cross there can be no resurrection. 

After the resurrection the wonders of the heavens open; the 
"woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, 
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," will appear, and 
the great mystery is unveiled, understood and wondered at. The 
solution is apparent to the awakened soul. 

The "Woman clothed with the sun." 

She is baptised with the rays of the Christie-Love, Christie 
Truths, and Christie Potencies. 

"The moon under her feet." 

She is master of the Thought Kingdom — of mental crea- 
tions. 



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"Upon her head a crown of twelve stars." 

She is queen of ideas, of ideals, and of creations. 

The aspirant must be willing to take upon himself the 
cross and follow. He should be prepared to suffer, strive and 
wait. At the hour of victory, when the soul speaks and opens 
the gateway to knowledge, wisdom and love, he is fully rewarded. 

It is worth all struggles, tempests and battles to learn the 
hidden secrets of nature. The "woman clothed with the sun" 
is behind the veil, a curtain, if men but knew, that is very thin 
and not difficult of penetration to those who — try. 

Men to-day marvel, as did the disciples ages ago; "while 
they looked steadfastedly toward heaven (outwardly) as he went 
up, and behold, two men stood bv them in white (purified, 
transmuted) apparel." 

"Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing 
up into heaven (outside of yourselves) ? The same Jesus which 
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner 
as ye have seen him go into heaven." 

Men gaze into space. They foolishly believe that someone 
will come and "lift them up" despite themselves, and thus save 
their selfish, unworthy souls. They seek for someone to redeem 
them, ignorant of the fact that they must work out their own 
salvation. Like the Jews, they continue to look for the coming 
of a King to rule and govern them, instead of developing the 
strength to govern themselves. 

It is written that: "When the day of Pentecost was fully 
come, they were all with one accord in one place (all the inner 
forces and desires concentrated on one holy — to be made whole 
— desire). 

"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a 
rushing, mighty wind, and it filled all the house, where they 
were sitting. 

"And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of 
fire, and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with 
the Holy Ghost." 



200 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

This is the baptism of fire, it is the transmutation taking 
place in the soul and the reception of the Fires from heaven — 
the Holy Ghost, the final concentration of the .ZEth potency for 
the consummation of Conscious Individualization. This must 
come to all who would be saved — Immortalized. 

It is written that Paul said: "We shall all (those who 
think, desire and labor constructively) be changed in a moment, 
in a twinkling of an eye, at the last (finishing of the work), 
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead (the carnal flesh un- 
dergoing transmutation) shall be raised incorruptible, and we 
shall be changed. 

"So when the corruptible (flesh) shall have put on incor- 
ruption (purification) and the mortal shall have put on immor- 
tality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, 
Death is swallowed up in victory." 

The awakened soul can never die. When the mortal, dying, 
sin-loving man changes, — when he begins to think thoughts that 
cleanse his being and elevate him, he is putting on immortality. 
He cannot die, for the conscious soul knows no death. There is 
no death to the changed, fire-cleansed, ^Eth charged man. Death 
is swallowed up in victory. 

Through the M\h mysteries the evil in man reveals itself. 
Man stands face to face with himself and he judges himself 
impartially and without excuse. All the evils and weaknesses 
are read as one reads the pages of an open book. Subterfuges 
are no longer sought. Excuses not made. Man is as he is. His 
life's history is written in letters of fire, — the fire that must be 
beheld, and scourges to the quick. For "the Holy Ghost is also 
a witness to us;" and "this is the covenant that I will make 
with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my 
laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and 
their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." 

Both the mind and the heart are required in the Great 
Work. The mind plans and creates. The soul receives. 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 201 

Mind is the beginning of existence, both of the body and 
the soul. 

More of soul is the need of man. The base metals must 
be transmuted into the pure and shining gold. 

Egotism, selfishness, conceit, self-absorption and other de- 
structive passions are not firm foundations to build upon. There 
is but one Rock. It is the Fire-enclosed soul. 

"Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day 
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and this fire 
shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 

"If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, 
he shall receive a reward. 

"If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss, 
but he himself shall be saved; yet as by fire." 

What have you built? 

What are you now building? 

What are you planning to build? 

If you have a soul that is purified with the Fires of the 
Holy Ghost you are saved. You have attained Conscious In- 
dividuality. 

You are saved because you knew how, and were willing to 
build the soul that attained companionship with the masters, 
the initiates, and sonship with the Father. 

When man in his blindness stumbled upon the treasures of 
the Kingdom of heaven and brought them forth to distribute 
blindly and without reason to a world of babblers, the veil was 
still secure and unpenetrated. 

Those who were foreordained by the Law were not sleeping 
(were not waiting for a trumpet to sound and rout them from 
inertness and impotency); for they who sleep never accomplish; 
never labor, never learn and never attain. They were bearing 
arms and shields to protect the good, that it be not betrayed and 
outraged by the ignorant. The multitudes have been, and are 
now, led blindly. They do not see. Only they, whose eyes are 
opened, may behold as did Saul of Tarsus. 



Tke AEtk Mijstenj 



First : The i£th is the Fire of the Conscious Soul. 

Second: The iEth is a transmutation of the Ozone and 
Oxygen in the air, breathed into the lungs, consciously drawn 
over the nerves to the Creative Center, or Pelvic Brain, there 
transmuted and transferred to the Soul Center, from whence it 
may be used in the potentizing of the being of the sufferer. 

Third : That it is the union of the Awakened Mind Forces 
with the Illuminated Soul Fires; — an interchange between the 
two. 

Fourth: We now give you the additional law, that the iEth 
is produced by the Electric (creative) currents of the mind, and 
the Magnetic (receptive) currents of the Soul. It is the wedding 
(Spiritual Marriage) of the mental energies with the Awakened 
Soul Forces. It is the highest and most powerful volatilized 
energy known to the Masters of the Mysteries, to the Inner 
Initiates. 



Tke Work Before Us 

Souls are needed in this vast work before us — souls who 
are ready and willing to follow in the footsteps of the masters 
who have gone before, and prepared a way for them. 

The field is large, the laborers are few. The soul cannot 
advance unless it is active. "Activity is life — the more of ac- 
tion the greater the life." The soul must have opportunity to 
accumulate energy from every plane of action. Spiritual knowl- 
edge and development is possible only, under careful guidance. 
The soul cannot advance while it is slumbering, any more than 
man can gain strength without activity. The world of souls is 
starving for the truth. There are countless beings hungry and 
thirsty for the bread of life, — the waters of immortality. These 
are seeking the path to light and life. Who is to guide them ? 

We have no desire to see the formation of a great, un- 
wieldy, creed-bound organization. We want leaders who will 
gather together the earnest souls, who are seeking for the Way, 
and who will teach and guide these even as they themselves are 
instructed and shown the Path. 

There are many throughout the world who belong to the 
Invisible Brotherhood. They are souls of the first water, pearls 
of great price. They move with little noise, laboring in the 
fields of the master; preferring heart service to the Throne of 
the All, and not "praying in synagogues with loud voices and 
thanking God that they are not as others are." On the contrary, 
they thank God that they are like unto others, that they have 
had to travel the same paths, overcome the same weaknesses, 
and suffer the same pains, sorrows and loses. 

These are the humble workers in the field of service. They 



204 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

are the doers of the Word. They have come to a partial com- 
prehension of the laws of nature and have attained some under- 
standing of the needs of the soul. They have dedicated them- 
selves to the Father and have promised to obey His commands 
as far as in their power lies. 

Soul Science has opened its doors to all who are willing to 
come, to learn, and to live. Teachers, helpers, and workers are 
in demand. The truth must be taught to all who seek. The 
glorification of the Soul must be made manifest, but how 
shall "they (being ignorant of the law) call on Him in whom 
they have not believed, and how shall they believe in Him of 
whom they have not heard?" How shall the multitudes be in- 
structed if there are none to "work in His vineyard?" 

It is our desire to reach all the people; to open their un- 
derstanding to the truth, and thereby benefit them and those that 
are to come after them. 

The masters of the past ages are with us, offering us their 
strength and power, knowing that the time has come for a revolu- 
tionary change in the world of thought and worship. 

The Messiah is now here though the world is not ready to 
accept him. He has come unto his own, and is ready to lead 
others to their inheritance. 

In ages past when the minds of men were wandering far 
astray, one came, suffered and won the victory, that others might 
do likewise; but men failed to understand, and the few worldly 
powerful ones, who took advantage of their ignorance, led them 
into greater darkness. 

Egotism and false doctrines sprang up in divers places. 
Out of great spiritual truths were manufactured dogmas that 
bound the souls of men instead of leading them to the light. 
Justification by faith and the vicarious atonement were thrust 
upon humanity as divine truths emanating directly from the 
Godhead. These tenets, without a shred of truth in them, had 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 205 

the potency of holding in slavery, the countless millions that 
were born during two thousand years past. 

The people began to seek leaders who demonstrated mun- 
dane laws and material gains, who were wise in their own con- 
ceit and led astray by their colossal vanity. 

Man was taught to believe in, and repeat creeds, instead of 
living the life and seeking the Christos within. 

As orthodoxy spread and became powerful, the few, whc 
believed in the Christ, were persecuted and destroyed. The let- 
ter prevailed, the spirit died. 

Unilluminated men, irrespective of the greatness of their 
intellect and erudition, were incapable of demonstrating spiritual 
laws and therefore ridiculed the divine understanding. The 
masses, being weak and without enlightenment, at first feared 
these leaders, then gradually came to accept their words as 
wisdom. Thus was lost the Secret Knowledge — the way to sal- 
vation. 

Ignorance became more and more pronounced. The origin- 
al meaning of the Christie inculcations, the saving truths, the 
Greater Mysteries, were hidden under a symbolism, and shortly 
the few, who were mighty and supreme in the wisdom of the 
gods, were the only ones who knew, and these received no hear- 
ing. They were given little credence. 

For centuries, generation after generation has been misled 
and erroneously instructed. The multitudes have been groping 
in darkness, seeking light where there was no light, — straining 
at gnats and swallowing camels. The soul of the world is 
starving. It is standing to-day on the threshold of a mighty 
religious revolution. Divers doctrines have crept in unawares. 
False prophets have "brought in damnable heresies, and with 
feigned words have made merchandise of many," while "with 
profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science, falsely 
so-called; which some professing have erred, concerning the 
faith (truth)." 



206 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Which is it to be? The dogma that makes slaves of men 
and darkens their souls, or the rarely acceptable, though abso- 
lutely uncontradictable truths — the truths that man must save 
his own soul by his thoughts, desires and deeds? 

There are many teachers so-called, some, who are sincere 
and earnest but who have not attained self-mastery, who know 
not the mystery of the Soul's Illumination, and who have not 
reached Conscious Individuality. How can these guide other 
souls, seeing they have not solved the secrets of the mysteries 
and have not been accepted by the elect, knowing nothing of 
the divine comedies that must be enacted within the souls of 
men. 

Then again, there is the widespread inculcation of the 
sex doctrines which destroy the body and damn the soul. Men 
and women parading in sheep's clothing, leading astray the 
ignorant and innocent for their own special benefit. These 
"careth not for the sheep." They are a curse upon the race. 
They are destroying archangels, that work not for good. 

It is written : "When ye see the abomination of desolation 
(spoken of by Daniel the Prophet), stand in the holy places, 
then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains." This 
thing is now come to pass. Religious leaders of world-wide fol- 
lowing, are teaching their votaries the practices expressedly for- 
bidden by Moses, and the prophets; practices that were then 
rapidly decimating the ranks of the Hebrews. These leaders 
are impersonating the one great Unknowable God. "The man 
of perdition opposeth and exalteth himself above . all that is 
called God, or that is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in 
the temple of God shewing himself that he be God." 

These are the great destroyers. They cannot save. They 
teach unto destruction. Their practices drain the mind and the 
soul, and it is written that, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." 

"But the hoyr is coming ana* now is ? when the 4e?td (those 



THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 207 

living in sin and carnality) shall hear the voice of the son of 
God (shall awaken) and they that hear (obey) shall live." 

To-day humankind stands duped and misled, and almost 
destroyed by the great curse and evil, while the dawn of a new 
era is before us, with but few to teach the redeeming doctrine of 
salvation by works; — the attainment of Individualization 
through personal effort. 

This is the age of transition. The change from the old 
into the gloriously new, is at hand. The Secret Schools have 
stood the test of the ages. The grandest achievements ever ac- 
complished by man, were originally concealed in the Ancient 
Mysteries. 

It is our desire to have many messengers of the truths which 
are taught in this book, and to ordain Priests that they may 
officiate in harmony with the great law; that these may act as 
confessors for the thousands of starving souls, who must rely 
upon some one. We desire also to prepare healers that these 
may teach the laws of life and bring to the sufferers "healing 
on their wings." We wish to band together, in one great, glori- 
ous, compact whole, all who are earnestly seeking the way to 
Life and Immortality. There are many who are sincere and 
earnest. Souls are worth more than money, though each one 
must do its part. Souls, great, grand, unselfish, yet just souls, 
are what are wanted more than anything else. 

Are you ready to labor in the vineyard of the true God? 
Are you willing to learn, and to teach the True Law, even 
though thereby you daily condemn yourself? Then "as thou 
soweth so shalt thou reap.'" Your opportunity is at hand. Your 
acceptance and dedication of yourself, your very soul, will ulti- 
mately place you in mental co-operation with the Great Invis- 
ible Brotherhood whose members are constantly sending out 
thoughts of strength and power. 

The Hierarchies are reaching out and drawing together 
jd] those, in harmony, and upon these wil} be their blessings, 



208 THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL 

Great is the work awaiting willing hands. 

Nothing good and constructive is denied the workers. 

Pleasures, recreations, and other desirable things which 
are harmful neither to the one nor the other, are not forbidden. 

The Secret Schools are seeking for those willing and ready 
to assist the Masters and Initiates in spreading the doctrine of 
Conscious Individuality and Sonship with the Father. 

Centers of service and healing must be established in all 
towns and cities. At these healing centers, encouragement, and 
the helping hand, must ever be ready to assist the needy and 
weary. Honest, reliable, faithful, sincere, and dependable in- 
structors must be at the helm at each of these, keeping in touch 
with the whole work. Much literature must be prepared and 
issued so that the poor shall be able to obtain a correct under- 
standing of the great laws, that each one may have an oppor- 
tunity to attain Conscious Immortality. 

It must be an harmonious work for the purpose of bene- 
fiting humanity, and offering the shackled soul a chance to tear 
away the bonds now fettering it. Love, good fellowship, sym- 
pathy and understanding are the foundation upon which we 
expect to build in the hearts of men, here and now, — not in some 
distant place and time, — a structure such as will put to shame 
the glory of the mythical material temple of Solomon, the King. 

This is the service of the heart. It is the science of the 
soul. It is the only religion that can save the soul. None 
greater can follow; it is a continuous Angelus of the Kingdom 
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